Ernst & Young
6 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 2, 2016 by Charles Gaudet · said 43 times in 32 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Nathan Latka (19), Pan Dezarellis (7), Josh Lee (4), Jon Darbyshire (2), Jason Andrew (2), Chris Mealy (2), Sebastian Karlsson (1), Mike Kimmel (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- He got diluted to 25% at his first SaaS company, now wants to keep new thing "private"
- How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
- Life After Freemium: Why we killed our model, built a new one, and increased LTV by 400%
- How we pivoted our way to a near hundred million dollar exit
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 14 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- CPG Data SaaS Doubles to $1.6m ARR, Raising $3m on $18m Now
- Ardius Finds $500m in Tax Credits for Startups, Exits to Gusto
- An Incubator took 25% But Helped These Co-Founders Merge, Raise Seed, and Hit 3 Paying Customers
- Premise Breaks $20m Revenue, $400m+ Valuation in Two Sided Marketplace Play for Consumer Data and Feedback
- LeadCrunch Hits $24m Revenue, $650k Revenue Per Employee, Raising $30m for 20% Of Business 2021?
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 8 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
- 1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
- 1558 Why This Event Management CEO Believes 25% Of Her $2.5m In Revenue Should Be Professional Services
- 1508 With $1.2m in MRR, They're Making Truck Fleets More Efficient
- 1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"
- 1445 Enterprise Teams Use Her to Scale Employee Engagement, $3.5m ARR, $10m Raised
- 1398 How Limelight Is Shifting to More SaaS Revenue, $5m Currently
- 1366 ACT! and SalesLogix Founders New Company Hits $1m in ARR
- 1318 He's flat, cash flow positive, moving freemium, will his tests turn the ship?
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2017 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- 675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates
- 637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask
- EP 627: SmartSheet $70M Raised, $80M ARR, Helping 65,000 Customers with Project Management with CEO Mark Mader
- EP 557: Appointlet Hits $35k MRR, Co-Founders Because of Reddit Helping 1100 Customers Schedule with Rami El Chamaa
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- EP 443: SaaS $20M 2015 ARR, 150K Customers Giving People Quality Video, Photos, Audio with Joel Holland, CEO of VideoBlocks
- EP 343: The Fast Way to Make Money In RealEstate with Charles Gaudet
- From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban
- How to Build SaaS Company in Small Biz Space, Sell for $30m With Jay Bean
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Ernst & Young, oldest first
Jul 2, 2016
Gaudet's Pet Insurance Startup Lost Millions in Committed Funding in 2000
“We were nominated as one of the nation's best seed stage companies by Ernst & Young, selected as such by Venture One. We had several million committed to us by a venture capitalist, and when the crash of 2000 happened the venture capitalist he, well, actually,…”
Mar 4, 2019 negative
Slidebean actively turns away enterprise clients demanding custom product features
“The classic people that we kick out the door actually, which is a big compared to what we talked about last time is, is corporate customers. So we sometimes get like a large company that would come in and say, we had a situation with EY, for example. So they w…”
Jul 15, 2021
Jul 15, 2021
Aug 6, 2022 neutral
Mealy sold his houseboat and did commercial acting to bootstrap Companion Cabinet
“I went three years with no, Hey, I sold everything from my Ernst & Young career houseboat, everything. Use that to start the business and actually had to supplement with some commercial acting here and there to make it work.”
Oct 10, 2022 positive
Ex-Guidewire executive joined Limelight and recruited his entire former team
“He ended up then coming on as an advisor, helped me hire his entire previous enterprise sales team, and then made an introduction to an executive at Ernst & Young, who was instrumental in us raising our future round, as well as being able to build out the mode…”