Yahia Bakour

Founder & CEO, Context.dev · 1 appearance on the record.

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Yahia Bakour is an engineer and entrepreneur known for co-founding Stock Alarm, a bootstrapped market alert app that he scaled and sold on Acquire.com in 2023. He later founded Context.dev, a platform providing web data APIs for AI agents, following previous engineering roles at Amazon and Sunrun.

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Bakour: Rejected Higher Offers to Avoid Seller Financing and Lengthy Onboarding

“So there was a lot of things that we were also interested in other than just cash. So like some buyers were like, Hey, we want you to spend three months onboarding our team afterwards. Right. And even if they're offering more, we wouldn't necessarily be intere…”

Yahia Bakour Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 14:02 Startup Acquisition Stories with Yahia Bakour, Co-founder of Stock Alarm

Insight

Bakour: B2C Apps Face Harder Early MRR Milestones Than B2B SaaS

“You're like struggling so hard to get people to pay like five dollars a month for an app. Meanwhile, businesses could be like, 40 dollars a month easily for like a SaaS thing or whatnot. Which also makes it really hard to get past that first, like a hundred MR…”

Yahia Bakour Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 3:19 Startup Acquisition Stories with Yahia Bakour, Co-founder of Stock Alarm

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Bakour: Stock Alarm's Recurring Revenue Tripled During GameStop Trading Surge

“Our RR, like, tripled in one month. That was, like, one of our best months ever.”

Yahia Bakour Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 16:57 Startup Acquisition Stories with Yahia Bakour, Co-founder of Stock Alarm

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Bakour: Hundreds of Wealth Management Firms Used Stock Alarm's Individual Plans

“Because we had a couple of hundred wealth management firms using it on individual plans, right? Like one person from this firm or one person from that firm.”

Yahia Bakour Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 17:18 Startup Acquisition Stories with Yahia Bakour, Co-founder of Stock Alarm

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Bakour: Joined Stock Alarm when it had roughly $100 MRR

“Actually I was not, I did not start Stock Alarm originally. I actually joined when it was still like a hundred, MRR, roughly.”

Yahia Bakour Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 1:15 Startup Acquisition Stories with Yahia Bakour, Co-founder of Stock Alarm

Disclosure

Bakour: Stock Alarm Launched Phone Call Alerts Months Before Text Messages

“So the phone call feature was the main thing that kind of hooked people in. We added phone calls, like, I think like eight months before we added text messages, for example. So phone calls were in v-zero of the app, right? And then later on, we added texts, wh…”

Yahia Bakour Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 6:00 Startup Acquisition Stories with Yahia Bakour, Co-founder of Stock Alarm

Disclosure

Bakour: Stock Alarm Sold Because Real-Time Product Caused Operational Burnout

“And it was taking up a lot of headspace because with something like this you're always on call and it's a very like real time product in a sense. So like Friday night, if there's an outage, for example, and suddenly you're calling like tens of thousands of peo…”

Yahia Bakour Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 7:49 Startup Acquisition Stories with Yahia Bakour, Co-founder of Stock Alarm

Disclosure

Bakour: Stock Alarm Optimized for Tax Reduction Rather Than Acquisition Metrics

“At the end of the year, like, we're just three people, we're not, we weren't optimizing for acquisitions, right? So at the end of the year, we're trying, like, it's a partnership, we're trying to reduce our tax bills, so we just spend it on stuff. Or like pay …”

Yahia Bakour Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 10:43 Startup Acquisition Stories with Yahia Bakour, Co-founder of Stock Alarm

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Bakour: Stock Alarm Acquisition Took Three and a Half Months

“Like I think an under like start to finish and one where I started looking seriously was like three and a half months.”

Yahia Bakour Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 18:38 Startup Acquisition Stories with Yahia Bakour, Co-founder of Stock Alarm

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Gazdecki: Stock Alarm was recently acquired for $500,000

“Alright, I'm here with Yahia, who recently got acquired for Half million dollars for a startup called Stock Alarm.”

Andrew Gazdecki Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 0:24 Startup Acquisition Stories with Yahia Bakour, Co-founder of Stock Alarm

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Startup Acquisition Stories with Yahia Bakour, Co-founder of Stock Alarm	Jan 9, 2024	13m

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