Ivan Sabayev

6 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 7, 2023 by Nathan Latka · across every show →

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Jun 7, 2023
Assertion Partly supported
Careerist raised $8M Series A at $80M valuation in 2022
“Careerist today, he put in 50,000 dollars of his own money in a pre-seed round to raise 1.2 million seed at a twenty million post money valuation, and then closed at a series A in 2022, raising eight million on an eighty million post money valuation for a 6.6 …”
Nathan Latka Jun 7, 2023 ▶ 1:04 Rare! A YC company that profits $300k/mo, $25m revenue
Jun 7, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Trucker Path captured 800,000 of the 1.2 million US long-haul truckers
“So there are around like one point two million of them. And around 800,000 were our active users.”
Ivan Sabayev Jun 7, 2023 ▶ 2:56 Rare! A YC company that profits $300k/mo, $25m revenue
Jun 7, 2023
Disclosure
Sabayev: Ivan Sabayev holds majority equity among Careerist's three co-founders
“We have three co-founders. I I'm a majority shareholder, and then I have two other co-founders that have equity stock.”
Ivan Sabayev Jun 7, 2023 ▶ 11:54 Rare! A YC company that profits $300k/mo, $25m revenue
Jun 7, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Sabayev admits Trucker Path's 2017 sale mostly just returned investor capital
“We don't disclose this but the deal wasn't very good. So basically the deal was mostly to return money to investors.”
Ivan Sabayev Jun 7, 2023 ▶ 6:51 Rare! A YC company that profits $300k/mo, $25m revenue
Jun 7, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sabayev: Trucker Path peaked at around $5 million in annual revenue
“On the top, it was around like five million per year.”
Ivan Sabayev Jun 7, 2023 ▶ 3:31 Rare! A YC company that profits $300k/mo, $25m revenue
Jun 7, 2023
Disclosure
Sabayev acquired early users by posting from his wife's Facebook account
“So while marketing was for free we used the Facebook groups especially I like the women groups. So I couldn't post from my own account. So I took my wife's account and I started posting from her account on those groups and yeah, got a lot of interest.”
Ivan Sabayev Jun 7, 2023 ▶ 12:21 Rare! A YC company that profits $300k/mo, $25m revenue
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