David Daneshgar

9 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 12, 2024 by David Daneshgar · across every show →

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Mar 12, 2024 negative
Insight
Daneshgar: Giving early-stage startups $5M leads to poor decision-making
“When someone starts a company, if someone gives them five million bucks, I think they make poor decisions. If the only way to hire people is through customers paying you on contracts, that means you have to actually build something that people want.”
David Daneshgar Mar 12, 2024 ▶ 6:18 20 year old wins $3m playing Poker, launches $4m bootstrapped SaaS
Mar 12, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Whippy Targets 70% Growth and $10M Bootstrapped ARR Within 24 Months
“I think kind of on our roadmap is probably, I would say, think about 70 to 75% this year, and maybe 50 the next, but, you know, within the next 24 months, definitely we want to be at ten million, and they are bootstrapped as well, so.”
David Daneshgar Mar 12, 2024 ▶ 20:01 20 year old wins $3m playing Poker, launches $4m bootstrapped SaaS
Mar 12, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Daneshgar: Bloom Nation's co-founders cumulatively owned under 50% upon his exit
“The three of us, when I left, I mean, cumulatively owned less than half.”
David Daneshgar Mar 12, 2024 ▶ 7:34 20 year old wins $3m playing Poker, launches $4m bootstrapped SaaS
Mar 12, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Daneshgar: Whippy AI reaches 600-700 customers and $3M-$4M ARR
“Probably right now, neighborhood is six to 700, so you can do the math on the AR, but somewhere between three to four. About two X what it was a year ago.”
David Daneshgar Mar 12, 2024 ▶ 16:53 20 year old wins $3m playing Poker, launches $4m bootstrapped SaaS
Mar 12, 2024
Assertion Supported
Daneshgar: Ranked top five in poker in 2006 and won WSOP in 2008
“Yeah, I was a professional poker player between 2005 and 2008, and then in 2006, I was ranked top five in 2008. I won the World Series of Poker, so it was super fun.”
David Daneshgar Mar 12, 2024 ▶ 1:46 20 year old wins $3m playing Poker, launches $4m bootstrapped SaaS
Mar 12, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Daneshgar: Whippy scaled early sales via cold calling and emailing
“We started with outbound, which is different from a lot of people. Like we started because of blumination, again, a blessing of blumination, like cold calling, cold emailing, like true SDR and I was the AE.”
David Daneshgar Mar 12, 2024 ▶ 20:40 20 year old wins $3m playing Poker, launches $4m bootstrapped SaaS
Mar 12, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Daneshgar: Built a seven-figure bank account in his twenties playing poker
“Basically when I was at the height of poker, I was in my twenties and I did have a seven figure bank account from poker.”
David Daneshgar Mar 12, 2024 ▶ 18:48 20 year old wins $3m playing Poker, launches $4m bootstrapped SaaS
Mar 12, 2024
Assertion Supported
Daneshgar's Prior Startup BloomNation Raised $20M From Andreessen and Spark
“This one we bootstrapped, but the last one we raised about twenty million from Andreessen, Spark, Ronnie Conway, a bunch of people, and it was helping local florists.”
David Daneshgar Mar 12, 2024 ▶ 3:48 20 year old wins $3m playing Poker, launches $4m bootstrapped SaaS
Mar 12, 2024 positive
Insight
Daneshgar: Asking for upfront payment is the only true product validation
“If you go to someone and you ask, hey, would you use this? 99% of them are not going to offend you. They're going to say yes. I mean, who's not going to tell you that at a dinner if they're your friends or something? But then if you go to someone, you're like,…”
David Daneshgar Mar 12, 2024 ▶ 19:21 20 year old wins $3m playing Poker, launches $4m bootstrapped SaaS
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