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Hastings: Startups cannot win by starting as financial point solutions
“I do not believe that you can start as a point solution and eventually take it all over. You need to be the full source of truth for day one.”
Hastings: Quanta Raised a $4.7M Seed Round Pre-Product and Pre-Revenue
“There were no employees. Yeah. Pre-product, pre-revenue.”
Hastings: Having engineers do manual operations is the best path to automation
“I really think that is the best way to build an automated product because the engineers have to understand the domain very, very deeply.”
Hastings: Early-stage companies want accounting work done, not software
“And the reality is that early stage companies that they don't want an accounting software. They just want the work to be done. They want the peace of mind. They want it off their plate.”
Hastings: Low-end bookkeeping will become fully automated with hourly CPA support
“I think that's where bookkeeping at the lower end of the market is moving, where people will eventually be more comfortable With the software, just handling everything as they see that it works, and then they pay hourly for any edge case specific situations th…”
Hastings: The majority of Quanta's customers have fully replaced QuickBooks
“So we fully replaced QuickBooks. So the majority of our customers have no QuickBooks at all.”
Hastings: Traditional month-end accounting workbooks lose vital business context
“All of that data is lost because that work is done usually in manual spreadsheets that lives on someone's laptop, and it's done a little bit differently month over month. These are called month-close workbooks, which are always an Excel sheet living on, on som…”
Hastings: No single live tool unifies finance and accounting decisions
“There, there's no single tool that both finance and accounting work out of that is the live data source for day-to-day decisions.”
Hastings: Quanta Matches Traditional Accounting Service Pricing
“We are pretty similar, actually, and we've gone back and forth a lot about this internally, and I've gone back and forth about it with myself, and you have this dual problem of we're higher quality and we're better, so you think that we should be able to price…”
Hastings: AI will reduce two-week corporate financial analysis tasks to instant searches
“I think that's truly how financial analysis is going to feel in, in a shift change, where today it feels like going to the library, teams have to do two weeks of analysis work to answer a single question from the CEO, and after a system like Quanta has taken o…”
Hastings: Quanta Waited Two Years to Announce Seed Round
“Even though the seed funding was in 2023, I waited until the beginning of 2025 to announce it.”
Hastings: Quanta's average annual contract value currently sits between $15K and $25K
“We have moved up market, but we've also gained a lot of customers on the lower end as well. So we're still in, I, I'd say it's more of the, like, 15 to 25 at this point, but we, it is going up and up as we build more.”
Hastings: Early Quanta users converted to annual contracts despite onboarding issues
“So a lot of these were monthly Contracts to start, and then they converted to annual, and I thought, oh my gosh, they're all going to turn. We're not delivering on our promise here. They're going to hate us, but actually they wanted to keep working with us”