Gil Allouche
33 statements across 4 episodes · 9 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 7, 2016 by Gil Allouche · said 5 times in 3 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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Jun 7, 2016
Jun 7, 2016
Jun 7, 2016 bullish
Jun 7, 2016
Allouche: Metadata.io Extracts 100–150 Data Signals from an Email Address
“What we do is that we connect to many more data sources, not only cookies, but we connect to, and we specialize in B to B, so we can find out just by an email what's that person, you know, job, what was the previous job they ever worked for, their education le…”
Jun 7, 2016 positive
Jun 7, 2016
Jun 7, 2016 bullish
Jun 7, 2016 positive
Nov 5, 2022 negative
Allouche rejected a $4M term sheet that wiped out early investors
“I got a term sheet, a four million dollar term sheet from a green entrepreneur, a shark, who saw that we're struggling. That term sheet, if I took it, My company wouldn't be around anymore. That, that would convert all of the preferred to common. It wouldn't m…”
Nov 5, 2022
Metadata staff took a temporary 20% pay cut repaid with equity
“Another thing is that all of us took a 20% cut. Everyone, of course, including myself, every VP, every employee in the company took a 20% cut. We paid all of those people back that, that six months cut Compounded plus equity, additional bonus equity, after we …”
Nov 5, 2022
Metadata hired a pre-connected pod of five AEs to accelerate ramp time
“So we brought five AEs who knew each other.
They already knew how to work with one another.
They ramped each other up.
They were super knowledgeable and all of them crushed the numbers.
They, their ramp up time was insane.
I think in about month and a half, we…”
Nov 5, 2022 positive
Metadata Reached $2M ARR Within One Year of Launch
“So it starts in, in the beginning of 2020. We just hit product market fit. It looks good. It looks good. You know, it's two million dollars in ARR. For me, that was a dream. We only launched in the McGill in the middle of 2019. So in about a year, we got to tw…”
Nov 5, 2022
Nov 5, 2022
Allouche: Do psychedelics or smoke a joint before deciding out of fear
“Never make decisions out of fear. When you're scared shitless, take a breather. If you're still scared, go for a walk, go for a run, do some pushups, do some psychedelics, smoke a joint. I don't care what you do, but definitely do not make a decision from that…”
May 1, 2023
Allouche: Metadata froze hiring and capped headcount at 110 instead of 200
“So we're supposed to grow to about 200 people, and we're at about a 110. And so we really had to make hiring freeze completely, so about 30 people that we're about to hire, we're not hiring. And then we had to let go of a lot of people, some contractors, some …”
May 1, 2023 bearish
May 1, 2023
Allouche: Founders should make offensive moves during survival crises
“When you have a situation like that, a survival situation, you don't only want to take defensive moves. You also want to take offensive moves, because when everyone is panicking and hunkering down, it's kind of an opportunity for you to make bold moves.”
May 1, 2023 negative
May 1, 2023 positive
May 1, 2023 neutral
Allouche: Founders need outsiders to fix flawed workflows due to internal attachment
“When someone builds a workflow, even if that workflow sucks, they are emotionally attached to it. And so you have to bring in someone else who is not emotionally attached to it and can have a beginner's mind and show you that you have a problem here.”
May 1, 2023
May 1, 2023
Allouche tanked his credit score to 250 to fund Metadata
“I maxed out all of my credit cards. American Express would call me daily. I would pick up my phone and tell them I'm not paying you anything. When I have money, I'm paying you all of it. Right now, you can keep calling me. Not paying you any of that. And third…”
May 1, 2023 neutral
May 1, 2023
May 1, 2023 negative
Allouche: The Series B Trap Leads to Cash Depletion and Fire Sales
“After you raise the Series B, there is this story that you didn't figure out everything about the business, you keep investing, and actually, you don't get the growth, and if you fully fall into the trap, you run out of money, and then you have a fire sale.”
May 14, 2024
Outreach carries higher credibility when sent by role peers, not salespeople
“This comes from the same ICP. I find the same person that I sell to, and I find the same person in my company who is equal. And I send that email from them because there is much more credibility. There is camaraderie between a marketer and a marketer versus a …”
May 14, 2024 positive
May 14, 2024
Metadata survived on $25k before securing AR debt and $6.5M funding
“We got all the way to, I think, 25 grand in the bank. It's like, not a lot of money in the bank. Almost going under, and then slowly going up. From that moment, I was able to get, ah, 200 K in accounts receivable debt. From that, I was able to get 300 K in con…”
May 14, 2024
Pitching VCs when you do not need capital yields better terms
“When you don't need the money, when you go to an investor and you tell them, this is happening anyway, you are invited to join us for this journey, the conversation is very, very different. You talk to different people, much kinder people, and you get term she…”
May 14, 2024 positive
Metadata won ThoughtSpot by re-engaging a champion who switched jobs
“We want a huge deal, Just by going to the same person who liked us, but it can't, she couldn't bring us into that company, she later joined ThoughtSpot. Big ass logo that we still have, and we were able to win that just because we woke her up.”
May 14, 2024 positive
Ranking top four on comparison guides reliably secures prospect sales calls
“Even if you don't come up first, it's still worthwhile to do it, because if you're in the top three or top four, it's very likely that the person is going to give you a shot. They're going to give you half an hour on the phone to maybe convince them, even if t…”
May 14, 2024 negative
Disregard vanity marketing metrics in favor of revenue and CAC
“When I say works, again, I don't talk about vanity metrics. I don't care about leads, I don't care about impressions, click-through rates, all of those cool, you know, KPIs that, that, you know, growth hackers talk about, I really don't understand much about. …”