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Paroon Chadha

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Oct 9, 2022
Assertion Supported
Chadha: OnBoard raised $100 million in 2021
“We raised a hundred million last year.”
Paroon Chadha Oct 9, 2022 ▶ 15:14 Founder First PE Playbook: Growing from $24m Revenue Bootstrapper to $400m PE Valuation
Oct 9, 2022
Disclosure
Chadha: OnBoard used debt to bootstrap to $15M ARR
“First actually really took on debt. To continue to bootstrap till we got to fifteen million dollars in ARR.”
Paroon Chadha Oct 9, 2022 ▶ 1:55 Founder First PE Playbook: Growing from $24m Revenue Bootstrapper to $400m PE Valuation
Oct 9, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Chadha: OnBoard raised $5M primary plus secondary in first institutional round
“So the first check was actually only five million dollars on the balance sheet. I did take some you know, secondary off just to really kind of just ease the pain.”
Paroon Chadha Oct 9, 2022 ▶ 13:24 Founder First PE Playbook: Growing from $24m Revenue Bootstrapper to $400m PE Valuation
Oct 9, 2022 positive
Insight
Chadha: Early customers are emotionally invested and act as an early board
“So you can get a lot out of your early customers. They are emotionally invested just like early employees. The question really comes down to what are you going to solve for with them? They're your early board, if you will.”
Paroon Chadha Oct 9, 2022 ▶ 10:25 Founder First PE Playbook: Growing from $24m Revenue Bootstrapper to $400m PE Valuation
Oct 9, 2022
Disclosure
Chadha: OnBoard's first customer provided the loan for his co-founder buyout
“In my case, my first customer was also somebody who gave us infrastructure. We used their office. They also advised a lot on operations side. How do you get compliance certifications and such? And eventually they became my date partner. When I talked about buy…”
Paroon Chadha Oct 9, 2022 ▶ 10:00 Founder First PE Playbook: Growing from $24m Revenue Bootstrapper to $400m PE Valuation
Oct 9, 2022
Disclosure
Chadha: Ensemble generated $2M-$3M annually to fund OnBoard's growth
“Meanwhile, we continued down the path of taking the original product ensemble and making it into a cash cow, which funded the business two, three million dollars every year. That money was plowed back into growing the onboard business.”
Paroon Chadha Oct 9, 2022 ▶ 4:20 Founder First PE Playbook: Growing from $24m Revenue Bootstrapper to $400m PE Valuation
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