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Ujjainwalla: Knak integrates with Adobe Marketing Cloud better than Adobe does
“We connect better into the Adobe marketing cloud than Adobe does natively.
There are lots of integrations that don't exist through products that Adobe all owns that we do.”
Ujjainwalla: Knak built its enterprise product via customer-funded IP retention deal
“We built like a custom package for them where they funded a lot of the custom development of our enterprise This product. From the beginning, we would own all of that IP, and it was just such a great partnership because their vision aligned to ours.”
Ujjainwalla Kept Consulting Business Full-Time Until Knak Reached $1M ARR
“And to be honest, I hadn't left my consulting business when we were doing a million in error because of exactly that. Like the consulting business was still way more successful than NAC was.”
Ujjainwalla: Incumbent marketing platforms will re-enter asset creation via GenAI
“Now, there is a whole new focus on content generation now with generative AI, and so I think a lot of them are going back
Back to what we're doing.
Cause it's sexy again.
Like, hey, there's generative AI images and text, and that fits really nicely into these …”
Ujjainwalla: Large VC rounds erode bootstrapping spending and hiring discipline
“I really think there's, like, this easy come, easy go mentality that can happen a little bit. Like, before, when we were bootstrapped, it was like, hey, we had to grind to make all this money. And we're going to be super diligent in who we hire, what we spend …”
Knak reached approximately 700 customers in its first 18 months
“And it took off, like, it was super basic, but we were up to, like, 700 customers in the first year and a half.”
Ujjainwalla: Knak is well north of $10M in ARR
“When we were the template product, I can just share, like, we're well north of ten million in ARR now.”
Ujjainwalla: Knak plateaued at $1M ARR on initial MVP
“Well, yeah, like, it grew super fast, and then we kind of plateaued at a million.”