Emmett Cooke
15 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 25, 2025 by Emmett Cooke · across every show →
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Mar 25, 2025 positive
Cooke: Non-technical founders should prototype clickable MVPs with AI before hiring developers
“If I was a non-technical founder now, first of all, I would try to build like a very basic MVP. With AI, it's not always possible because it can't do everything, but definitely I would build a very basic version of the MVP, get it working, like at least clicka…”
Mar 25, 2025 positive
Cooke: Scaling revenue 20-40% pre-sale massively increases startup valuation
“Then I think over that 12 months, really try and maximize and push your business to scale the revenue as much as you can, because How much it scales in that 12 months, even if it grows, like, you know, 2030, 40%, like, that can massively increase your valuatio…”
Mar 25, 2025 positive
Mar 25, 2025 positive
Cooke avoided aggressive negotiations to protect the Pulse acquisition deal
“Where I had, like we had valued the business right in the middle of the valuation range. And I think that's fair. And I think they were getting a fair deal and they offered a fair price. So I wasn't really like with the size of the money we were talking about …”
Mar 25, 2025 neutral
Mar 25, 2025
Cooke: Pulse never ran B2B marketing campaigns
“I never actually had to market the B to B side of it. The B to C side we did, but the actual B to B side where we were offering the platform for companies to use. I never actually did any marketing for that. It was always just through word of mouth or through …”
Mar 25, 2025 negative
Cooke: Repurposing open-source itch.io caused technical debt and burned capital
“We tried using the open source platform, but it was a nightmare because what we found was as we tried to take that apart and make it work for our solution, every time we'd go one step back, we'd have to go two steps forward, and we'd Add one feature and would …”
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Cooke: Selling a business triggers post-sale uncertainty and identity loss
“Be aware that you can kind of tie your identity to your business, and like that disappears when you sell your business, so there's a, expect like a couple of weeks afterwards, kind of this uncertainty, Where you sort of feel like, huh, I don't know, what shoul…”
Mar 25, 2025
Pulse had 360,000 users and over 100 B2B clients at acquisition
“So on the B to B side, I think there was over a hundred anything. And then on the B to C side the actual platform had grown to around about 360,000 users in like the database with around a thousand to 2000 daily active users within the desktop app.”