Missive

“It was equity and an equity. I don't know if it means much, but it was thirty millions in, in valuation from that business, but you had to believe that the equity.”

“At the co-working space, I was actually making money from, like, a really from a game portal I created when I was a teen, a French game portal I created when I was a teen, and, you know, just, like, ramen money, ramen profitable money, like, a few Ks a year, j…”

“I think we're around like 2000 businesses using this.”

“When you're a company like us, the product is email. Everyone can use email. So there's a lot of people trying the product. And some of those will churn, and that's a good thing, right? Because we cannot be a solution for everyone. So if I only look at churn, …”

“The rest is just like it's such a big space that even if it's just word of mouth and we're just a small team that it's really working out actually, because with the word of mouth, it's sustained our growth and we're just four guys and it makes good sense.”

“First year of missive was like, ah, I don't know, not a lot of money. Like, I think like three K for the whole year.”

“We had we were approached three times. And buy big let's say unicorns and more.”

“We don't look at data. Actually, that's the simple strangest answer. I can like honest answer. It's like, we don't really look at data. It's just the feeling of our customer.”

“So I'd say right now, so we crossed like the one million air are like two months ago.”

“I don't think so.”

“Well, I break it down because salary, let's say everything else except salary, I would say like, 20 K's, mostly servers.”

“It's Heroku, our platform as a service, how we, where we host Missive and all the smaller apps that needed to run Missive behind the scenes. It's just, it's one of the things that allowed us to be only three and managed to grow our tech stack.”

“A hundred bucks.”

“Phil had started building my co-founder CEO at Missive. He started building conference badge All by himself back in 2013, and we joined him, and since he started the product, he had more equity, and it's while running and building Conference Badge that we foun…”

“We actually hired our first employee, like not even a month ago. So everything I'm telling you today is we build it at, we were a tree and then just the three founders. We are all engineers. We are definitely not salespeople. We are engineers and we all do cus…”

“No, not higher than that.”

“We are still. Yes.”

“Oh, it's something like let me just make it times 12, 50 150,000.”

“Yes, we are definitely similar. Front is probably the one we are the closest to. And we had some discussions with Front. They tried our product. We tried theirs and there was some inspiration from both sides and we have a good relationship with them, but yeah …”

“Because we are at close to 2000 paid customers right now.”

“It's a honest take. When there are some shortcomings in Missive compared to the other product, we do state it clearly, and we don't want to bring users in who won't like Missive and would actually rather use Spark or, like, a more personal-oriented email app.”