Keboola

20 statements across 2 episodes · 10 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 8, 2021 by Pavel Dolezal · said 22 times in 2 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Sep 8, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Keboola intentionally shifted to unprofitability in 2021 to fund aggressive hiring
“When we started hiring all those new people in June, July, we actually made the decision that we will go within the next six months, we will not be profitable and reinvest all of that because we were, you know, hoarding the cash from last year.”
Pavel Dolezal Sep 8, 2021 ▶ 15:51 DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow
Sep 8, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Keboola saw 900 projects in its first six months of self-serve
“In the first six months we got 900 projects started, and in July, we got 260 projects started.”
Pavel Dolezal Sep 8, 2021 ▶ 5:25 DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow
Sep 8, 2021 neutral
Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 2020
Keboola revenue: $2.4M in 2018, $4.1M in 2019, $4.7M in 2020
“In 2020, we actually ended four seven, 2019, we actually ended 4.1, and 2018, we actually ended 2.4.”
Pavel Dolezal Sep 8, 2021 ▶ 8:48 DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow
Sep 8, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Third-party developers built 1,400 applications on Keboola's marketplace
“So there was, there's actually 1400 apps in our marketplace, which was created by 400 different developers.”
Pavel Dolezal Sep 8, 2021 ▶ 11:03 DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow
Sep 8, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Keboola added over 50 new paying customers in 2021
“Last year it was it was like around 115, 124 actually last year. And this year we actually already added over 50 new customers.”
Pavel Dolezal Sep 8, 2021 ▶ 3:32 DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow
Sep 8, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Keboola net dollar retention was 105 percent in 2020, rebounding in 2021
“Net retention rate, you know, in dollars was actually, 2019 was 119 and 2020 was 105%. Already now we are in 100 111%. So like 11% on top this year.”
Pavel Dolezal Sep 8, 2021 ▶ 13:42 DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow
Sep 8, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Keboola's logo churn jumped to 21 percent in 2020 due to COVID
“Until last year we had eight, 10%, eight to 10%. And last year it was like 21% in the base. Of customers who either, you know, like went bankrupt or, you know, like totally scaled down their businesses or stopped for a bit of the year.”
Pavel Dolezal Sep 8, 2021 ▶ 12:52 DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow
Sep 8, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Keboola's three co-founders split equity evenly
“Oh, we, all three of us have a split three percent, one third.”
Pavel Dolezal Sep 8, 2021 ▶ 3:19 DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow
Sep 8, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Keboola reaches $4.9 million in annual recurring revenue
“We are now actually doing 4.9 ARR, you know, on annualized basis.”
Pavel Dolezal Sep 8, 2021 ▶ 4:46 DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow
Sep 8, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Dolezal worked three years to earn his equity stake in Keboola
“I had to make, I had to actually, I had to work for my share for three years.”
Pavel Dolezal Sep 8, 2021 ▶ 2:53 DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow
Sep 8, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Keboola bootstrapped to $4.9 million ARR without outside capital
“No, it's all bootstrap until now.”
Pavel Dolezal Sep 8, 2021 ▶ 9:39 DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow
Sep 8, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bootstrapped Keboola generated $600,000 in profit in 2020
“We actually, until last year, end of last year, we were profitable, like and we had like 600,000 profit”
Pavel Dolezal Sep 8, 2021 ▶ 15:51 DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow
Sep 8, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Keboola leverages 400 marketplace developers alongside 28 internal engineers
“We have 28 28 engineers and plus 400 actually engineers in our marketplace.”
Pavel Dolezal Sep 8, 2021 ▶ 10:46 DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow
Sep 8, 2021 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Keboola scaled its sales team from one to ten in eight months
“Last December we had one person in sales, then we hired three people into sales in first half of this year. And as of today, we actually have 10 people as of August.”
Pavel Dolezal Sep 8, 2021 ▶ 6:22 DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow
May 5, 2022 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Keboola lost a $300,000 per year enterprise client to COVID bankruptcy
“We had a client who was doing, like, 300,000 a year went bankrupt, right?”
Pavel Dolezal May 5, 2022 ▶ 18:53 Congrats! Bootstrapped founder hits $5m
May 5, 2022
Assertion Supported
Keboola scaled initially via referrals from future unicorns like Productboard
“We started to scale first couple of years by referrals, You know, people start to use us. They start to grow their own companies, right? And then some of them are now, now, now unicorns, like product board, or a rally group in Europe, right?”
Pavel Dolezal May 5, 2022 ▶ 6:10 Congrats! Bootstrapped founder hits $5m
May 5, 2022 positive
Insight
Bootstrappers should embrace client concentration risk for $1M upfront payments
“Everybody says, well, overexposure to a couple of clients is bad. Well, Yeah, in the ideal world, it is. But if you, again, are starting and bootstrapping, and kind of like somebody, you know, you have a client who actually pays you a million dollars in advanc…”
Pavel Dolezal May 5, 2022 ▶ 19:16 Congrats! Bootstrapped founder hits $5m
May 5, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Partners made 4x more revenue than Keboola on initial Mall deployment
“So we then look back at the numbers, and in the first year, we made 1.7 of the target number we wanted, but our partners made four times that money. Four times, right? And that was the money we originally had in our cash flow when we were a service company.”
Pavel Dolezal May 5, 2022 ▶ 7:41 Congrats! Bootstrapped founder hits $5m
May 5, 2022 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Keboola marketplace has 1,400 applications built by 400 developers
“We have the biggest marketplace in our space. We have 1400 applications in our marketplace developed by 400 different developers.”
Pavel Dolezal May 5, 2022 ▶ 2:25 Congrats! Bootstrapped founder hits $5m
May 5, 2022
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Keboola originated as a cloud migration agency for Red Bull
“Because we had an agency, Which was actually doing cloud migrations, helping companies to go to cloud, companies like Red Bull, and then scale it.”
Pavel Dolezal May 5, 2022 ▶ 4:45 Congrats! Bootstrapped founder hits $5m
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