Daniel Jekaitis

Founder & CEO, Chatkick · 1 appearance on the record.

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Daniel Jakaitis is the founder and CEO of Chatkick, an AI-powered talent relationship management platform that acquired recruiting CRM startup Trinsley via MicroAcquire. He previously served as VP of Engineering at Next Caller and as a principal software engineer at Titan.

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Insight

Jakaitis: Giving sellers equity ensures responsive post-acquisition technical support

“There's no matter how technical you are and how much into the weed that the product you can get, there's always like little corner cases that you'll want to ping him about. And because he has skin in the game today, he's always willing to pick up the phone and…”

Daniel Jekaitis Nov 15, 2021 ▶ 7:30 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Jakaitis Founder of Chatkick

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Jakaitis: Consistency of folder structure is the top heuristic in code reviews

“For me the biggest heuristic that I go off of is organization and consistency of structure. So it's really hard if you're just, like, eyeballing, like, Thousands of lines of code over a zoom or whatever it is to figure out if it's quality code. But what you ca…”

Daniel Jekaitis Nov 15, 2021 ▶ 11:22 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Jakaitis Founder of Chatkick

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Jakaitis: Chatkick Faced Escrow.com Payment Delays Up to Three Weeks

“Like, we used escrow.com for our payments, and we had all sorts of issues getting payments into the platform, and then also out like, delays up to two to three weeks, which was, Challenging because you want to impart trust on each other, but at the same time, …”

Daniel Jekaitis Nov 15, 2021 ▶ 13:40 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Jakaitis Founder of Chatkick

Disclosure

Daniel Jekaitis: Chatkick acquired Trinsley after finding it on MicroAcquire

“In, in late April, I think it was I saw the Trinsley product, which we ended up acquiring come onto the market on the platform. And I immediately reached out to the founder, David.”

Daniel Jekaitis Nov 15, 2021 ▶ 3:22 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Jakaitis Founder of Chatkick

Disclosure

Chatkick Met 60-70% of Trinsley's Cash Asking Price Plus Equity

“So we gave him a nice tranche of cash. I would say we got to about the 60, 70% range of his cash expectations. And then I would say a healthy block of equity that if there is an exit event, he's gonna see some very nice returns off of it.”

Daniel Jekaitis Nov 15, 2021 ▶ 7:02 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Jakaitis Founder of Chatkick

Insight

Jakaitis: Unupdated dependencies from 2-3 years ago are major diligence red flags

“Big red flags if they're like on versions that are outdated like two, three years ago, and it's very clear they've never updated it. I know I went into diligence with a couple of different products that never ended up closing because you'd get in there and the…”

Daniel Jekaitis Nov 15, 2021 ▶ 12:19 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Jakaitis Founder of Chatkick

Insight

Jakaitis: Hand Over SaaS Assets via 1Password and Immediately Rotate 2FA

“Put everything in like a OnePass account and then just hand over the keys to the OnePass account. And then wash your hands of it, right? And my recommendation as like a buyer, right? Like when you get your hands on all that, roll the passwords, make sure you c…”

Daniel Jekaitis Nov 15, 2021 ▶ 14:20 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Jakaitis Founder of Chatkick

Disclosure

Jakaitis: Trinsley was originally listed at a $350,000 asking price

“So originally I think it was listed at 350,000 asking the price.”

Daniel Jekaitis Nov 15, 2021 ▶ 5:55 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Jakaitis Founder of Chatkick

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Assertion Supported

Gazdecki: Daniel Jekaitis Acquired Startup on MicroAcquire for Around $250,000

“You recently acquired a startup at Microquire for around a quarter million, and you were telling me you bought something else as well”

Andrew Gazdecki Nov 15, 2021 ▶ 0:44 Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Jakaitis Founder of Chatkick

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Jakaitis Founder of Chatkick	Nov 15, 2021	11m

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