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Bootstrapper Hits $3.5m, 0 Team Members using new 3x Growth Formula
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch
- ▶ 5:38 Eric Boduch And then, ah, you know, seeing Boston, New York, and then San Francisco, and it all kind of started to look like SAS distribution, but Pittsburgh was a big market for us.
Customer.io Just Hit $70m Revenue - 9 mistakes to avoid with CEO Colin Nederkoorn
- ▶ 0:54 Colin Nederkoorn Uh, when I was in my mid-twenties, I rode my bike from San Francisco to Boston, and it was about 4000 miles, and took, ah, 57 days of riding, and it was a great time to go through a transition and kind of figure out what I wanted to do… 4 times in the scene
Genius Affiliate Strategy Helps Bootstrapper Hit $27,000,000 Revenue
- ▶ 28:22 Rebecca Shostak Like you think about someone who has like a small bakery in San Francisco and they're waking up at four o'clock in the morning to make croissants and they don't want to have to worry about their email.
The Inside Story of Beamer Acquiring Userflow to hit $10,000,000 in ARR
- ▶ 8:38 Satya Ganni So I had to fly down to San Francisco the very next day, and I said, I'm going to wait in this bar until we meet.
How Pavilion Hit $10m in Revenue While Balancing Investor and Customer Demands with CEO Sam Jacobs
- ▶ 2:30 Sam Jacobs Uh, we have a chapter in San Francisco.
How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS
- ▶ 18:53 Gregory Galant The search to one or two geographies, even if it's a great geography, like here in Austin or San Francisco or, or New York, because there's so much great talent out there, ah, you can get anywhere.
27 year old Founder exited for $169m at $50m ARR. How much cash did he take home at exit?
- ▶ 17:52 Ryan Allis Lived in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, uh, Bali, Costa Rica, Boulder, Austin, and now we live in Asheville, North Carolina.
This Danish CEO Hit $30m ARR using Unique 14 Hub Model Selling Software for Microsoft Ecosystem
- ▶ 5:38 Rasmus Holst But remember, I am, I am Danish by origin, but I spent seven years of my life in San Francisco.
- ▶ 20:49 Rasmus Holst She's traveled with me to Luxembourg to, uh, to San Francisco and back here.
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023
- ▶ 9:56 Josh Martel Myself, my co-founder, um, who are not paid, um, we're roughing it out, and I just moved to San Francisco, so that is tough, uh, to be living here without a salary.
AI Tool Profited $70k Last Month on $195k of Revenue. Plans to hit $3m ARR By December then Raise $5m.
- ▶ 13:38 Andrea Volpini If we would be in San Francisco, that would be maybe a 35, but, uh, but, uh, we are in Rome.
How We Bootstrapped Backblaze from $0 to IPO and $87m in ARR
- ▶ 1:53 Gleb Budman Um, and then in twenty-twenty-one, uh, we were able to bring, uh, about a third of the team out to New York, out from San Francisco, uh,
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees
- ▶ 2:32 Nathan Latka If there's a big travel agent that's listing for, you know, hotels in San Francisco that are available tonight, I guess, I guess, why not just go use Expedia and find the cheapest price for the hotel in San Francisco? 2 times in the scene
Helping a bootstrapped founder go from Twitter only to omni-channel marketing to grow past $1M ARR
- ▶ 6:32 unnamed speaker What's great with this is this just gave us a whole bunch of leads located in San Francisco.
3 Frameworks to Help Forecast & Inform your Board in Your First Three Year
- ▶ 6:27 David Appel Every year I go to the large investment bank's annual investor conferences, and so they just had them two weeks ago in San Francisco.
How we built a successful sales team and scaled to +$10m ARR
- ▶ 12:03 Samir Smajic I was in, in San Francisco and I was like, well, what, what's the, what's the magic here about getting sales done in a good way?
How I use sales data to increase revenue without hiring more reps
- ▶ 2:00 Kyle Van Voorhis From there, I went and ran the SDR team at a technology company, a tech startup, uh, financial tech, in, uh, San Francisco.
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats
- ▶ 10:46 Brett Hurt Um, you know, I literally, I lived in San Francisco at the time.
3 Phases: Get People, Product, and Profit Right at Each Growth Stage
- ▶ 3:36 Larry Talley They were in San Francisco, perhaps even in New York.
There's no one right way to get to an 8 figure exit. Here's how I did it
- ▶ 3:21 Chad Ingram And so, like, definitely, you could raise your hands if you want to, but like, who here keeps modeling and emulating everything that happens in San Francisco as the way to success?
Bootstrapped to $18m by door knocking while competing with Toast, Square, and other fintechs
- ▶ 1:29 Nathan Latka Usually it's like New York, Miami, San Francisco.
- ▶ 2:09 Austin McNair So we don't focus on big towns like Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, all these other areas.
Bootstrapped to $30m By Acquiring Smaller Companies for 2x, How Question Pro Did It
- ▶ 1:54 Nathan Latka He's now in warm and sunny San Francisco while I freeze down here in Austin.
- ▶ 21:30 Nathan Latka New job in San Francisco, right? 2 times in the scene
From $350k to $1.4m last 12 months, this forecasting tool hit 550 paying customers, $10m valuation
- ▶ 13:44 Logan Burchett My co-founder, Steven, is actually out in San Francisco right now, and he's just kind of back-to-back meetings. 2 times in the scene
Bootstrapper hits $5m ARR using $2m in debt, keeps all his equity
- ▶ 2:43 Steve Benson I mean, San Francisco's bars didn't open until last week, right?
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth
- ▶ 4:55 Chris Brisson So I go to San Francisco on Market Street, and I'm in front of like, 400 of the best investors in the world, and I bombed.
How Clickup Bootstrapped to $25m, Then Decided to Go All In and Raise $530m to Take on Giants
- ▶ 20:59 unnamed speaker We're in San Francisco.
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers
- ▶ 3:56 Steve Benson And I forget exactly when this happened, but Nate, Nate was in town in San Francisco where I used to live, and, uh, we were shooting the shit about the debt industry, and, and he was really interested in it, and poking around at it, and he…
How Vroozi leveraged two internal hackathons last year to achieve $1M new ARR?
How Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe Hit $5m using team profit sharing as internal motivation
- ▶ 13:00 Bridget Harris Who thinks it's good economics to fix, uh, salary costs and tech companies to living in San Francisco? 3 times in the scene
How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
- ▶ 3:47 Jason Lemkin Uh, we spent about 200 grand to produce a one day low end event in the Regency Ballroom on SF.
How he negotiated term sheet to raise $10m and pivot his no code platform from services to SaaS
- ▶ 14:36 Nathan Latka Wouldn't it be more expensive to hire a full timer in New York or San Francisco?
PLG Playbook: How Jotform hit 10m Users, Targeting 5% Free to Paid, Min $19/mo Price Point, Bootstrapped
- ▶ 20:20 Steve Hartert I mean, cause you can put them in certain regions and, um, you know, you don't just blast like the, like here in San Francisco where we're located, you know, hit the entire barrier. 2 times in the scene
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.
- ▶ 4:34 Ryan Buckley Um, you know, profitable San Francisco, um, probably also Silicon Valley, mobile data, um, SAS enterprise. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:35 Ryan Buckley And, uh, we, we met in San Francisco over two, two meetings and yeah.
Bootstrapping King: $4m ARR with 6 Person Team, $2.8m Profits
- ▶ 8:24 Nathan Latka If you guys are like me, you're traveling a ton and I am working out of the Delta lounge in Austin, Texas or Barcelona or San Francisco constantly, or at local coffee shops.
Perfect timing Security SaaS Hits $12m Revenue, Closes $80m on $500m Valuation last week
- ▶ 10:44 Nathan Latka If you guys are like me, you're traveling a ton and I am working out of the Delta lounge in Austin, Texas or Barcelona or San Francisco constantly or at local coffee shops.
15 year old launches unique app, breaks $1m revenue, raises $10m
- ▶ 5:48 Mort Fertel We're pretty much everywhere except for farmland, Manhattan, and San Francisco. 4 times in the scene
She Hit $6m Bootstrapped for HR Tool, Will Place 200,000 Candidates This Year
- ▶ 9:27 Barb Hyman I'm here in Seattle right now, um, and have been in San Fran just meeting with VCs and getting to know that market because our business has really been funded.
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
- ▶ 8:06 Nicolas Vandenberghe Good ideas happen at the same time, and, and we, we're doing well, we have a freemium product, we start growing, and then I found that a company in San Francisco started before me, and thought that it's such a good idea to do this smart…
Henry Schuck turned down $40m for 70% when he was 24
- ▶ 3:55 Nathan Latka San Francisco. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:26 Henry Schuck They said, oh, come down to San Francisco, have lunch with us. 2 times in the scene
Language Optimization SaaS Hits $23k MRR in 6 Months, 9 FTE's, $3m Valuation
- ▶ 0:52 Nathan Latka She is one of the top 10 entrepreneurs in Sweden, formerly head of marketing in a San Francisco-based startup.
Supermetrics Does $4.3m in March, $51.7m Run Rate Helping Marketers Get All The Data They Need
- ▶ 6:05 Mikael Thuneberg And, and for a while he was also in some role in the San Francisco office of Meltwater.
Look Back at $100m Salesloft Before Vista Deal
- ▶ 10:46 Kyle Porter So Atlanta gives us all of those opportunities, but we also have the offices in New York, London, Guadalajara, and in San Francisco.
Trucking Software Goes $0 to $1.4m in 11 Months, $35m Valuation
- ▶ 5:49 Nathan Latka Are they shipping from, driving from Chicago to New York City or from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.?
DevOps Tool Fig Raised $2.2m in 2020, Now Approaching 100k MAU's, Whats Next?
- ▶ 0:58 Nathan Latka He grew up in Australia, specifically Sydney, did his undergrad at Harvard, and now lives in San Francisco.
Can This Marketplace Help Influencers Make More Money?
- ▶ 12:02 Elle Black Well, we're in San Francisco, um, and we're in the tech space.
$1.4m ARR Furniture Delivery Chatbot Company Growing 200% YoY, Raising $5m Now
224 Communities use Seva to Manage Volunteers, Raising $1.5m on $6m Now
- ▶ 11:31 Anita Beberg Well, I'm actually working with community organizers, one in, uh, uh, Oakland, the city of Oakland and, uh, San Francisco.
Testbox Lets You Try Software Without Sales Calls, Landed 1st Customer, $2.7m Raised at $12m Post Money Cap
- ▶ 1:13 Nathan Latka He left Bain after six years as a senior manager in San Francisco to build the future of software buying.
- ▶ 18:16 Sam Senior She's in San Francisco.
New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation
- ▶ 9:59 Nathan Latka If you're a good aide, someone in San Francisco can hire you and pay you two or two per year, you know?
Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises
- ▶ 3:16 Neil Parak LA, SF.
- ▶ 9:29 Nathan Latka So the a hundred grand a month you're doing right now, that's across two locations in LA and San Francisco.
How this DevOps Tool Plans to Break $1m in First 9 months
- ▶ 1:01 Nathan Latka He now lives and works in San Francisco.
ProjectCor Hits $1m ARR, Raises at $40m Valuation for Profit Tracking Tool for Agency's
- ▶ 7:27 Santi Biblioni So we launched the product like three years and a half ago, uh, here in NSF, in San Francisco.
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch
- ▶ 17:24 Nathan Latka Everyone in San Fran?
- ▶ 22:33 Shahid Khan So, 16 people, half remote, half here, uh, in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders
- ▶ 6:05 Ted Elliott So then the entire rest of the week that they were in San Francisco, we were basically going to dinner, going to lunch, hanging out, learning about the product.
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People
The First SaaS on BitClout will Replace Substack, Patreon
- ▶ 16:54 Nathan Latka White guy from San Francisco in his penthouse to do your 500,000 dollar round.
The Secret Dataset CPG Gods Use
- ▶ 9:54 Ryan Caldbeck And the reason that exists is in the tech space, you've got geographic density, San Francisco, New York.
Looking Back: Listen to Founder 3 Years Before Exiting for $450 Million
- ▶ 22:25 Giles Palmer Uh, move to San Francisco.
Premise Breaks $20m Revenue, $400m+ Valuation in Two Sided Marketplace Play for Consumer Data and Feedback
- ▶ 1:43 Nathan Latka In 2018, he took the helm at Premise Data, a San Francisco company operating a software platform for empowering the world's highest impact institution and companies to track and comprehend the ground truth.
- ▶ 10:19 Maury Blackman The size of the market just really excited the, you know, Sandhill here and in San Francisco.
SalesQualia SaaS Secret Weapon, Helping 35 Founders Scale Pipeline, $1m+ Run Rate
- ▶ 3:59 Scott Sambucci I was commuting three hour or two and a half hours each way to San Francisco.
LennysNewsletter On Building 45k List, 2.5k Slack Group, Monetization Strategies and Substack Future
- ▶ 5:28 Lenny Rachitsky And ran it for about a year and a half, uh, raised the money, moved to San Francisco, and then sold the company to Airbnb, which is how I joined Airbnb.
- ▶ 9:37 Nathan Latka And can we get a sense like getting your life a little bit when you were, I guess, 37 ish leaving Airbnb, you're living in San Francisco, correct?
- ▶ 15:18 Nathan Latka And, and at a, and at a hundred, at a 100,000 that you sort of saved a budget over six months, that puts your sort of monthly San Francisco expenses at like 10 to 15 grand a month, something like that.
How Lately Hit $900k For Social Media Automation Tool Using AI, $7m valuation
- ▶ 8:54 Kate Chernis So I flew out to San Francisco every week for four months to do a demo day, right?
OnCallHealth Grows 150% to $3m Run Rate for Virtual Patient Care HealthTech
- ▶ 4:45 Nicholas Chupswick They're San Francisco based and they've been amazing in terms of helping us push into the U S more.
AgentRisk Has $27m in AUM, Better Version of Family Office?
- ▶ 16:40 Nathan Latka So, I mean, literally the way that you see this scaling for you to get to a billion in AUM is you just literally cold calling your wealthy tech friends in San Francisco and LA and just keep bringing them in?
Vid.Camera Sells $20m in Tokens, Converting 100% to Fiat for New Facebook Where Creators Own Upside
- ▶ 2:23 Nathan Latka So, um, I mean, is this analogous to when I take a bunch of pictures on my last trip to San Francisco?
Front End As a Service, I Predict They'll Be $100m Within 3 Years
- ▶ 16:14 Nathan Latka San Francisco.
GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
- ▶ 7:12 Scott Wingo So Raleigh, Charlotte, uh, Denver, Phoenix, Las Vegas, LA, San Francisco, New York, Washington, DC, um, Orlando, Tampa, Miami, just kind of, uh, Dallas, if I didn't say that.
Cocaine, Coding, and Cashflow, The Truth about Dan Martell
- ▶ 31:54 Dan Martell I only stick around for about five months until I decided to move to San Francisco.
- ▶ 38:27 Dan Martell and I saw the traction he was getting, I just, I just thought to myself, like I didn't come to San Francisco to kind of do what I've been doing back in Canada and raising venture was kind of like the path if you wanted to build something…
- ▶ 44:49 Dan Martell So, uh, after clarity took a year off, went to San Francisco or San Diego with the family, had a young family.
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech
- ▶ 14:40 Lars van Wieren San Francisco, LA.
Wemby Hits $100k Revenue Giving Your Team Therapy Sessions
- ▶ 3:53 Alberto Fantapi So actually, I was in San Francisco when I founded, and it was like a pretty serendipitous, I have to say, because before coming to San Francisco on an acceleration program launched by Digital Health, I was hanging around in a social, uh,… 2 times in the scene
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token
- ▶ 3:55 Nathan Latka And so let's say a product manager that just got laid off from Airbnb in San Francisco wants to find work.
- ▶ 28:59 Adam Jackson It made five guys here in San Francisco even richer, right?
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com
- ▶ 53:40 Will Schroeder At the time, I moved to San Francisco, and, uh, and I started...
SnapBar Looses $3m Photobooth Revenue COVID, Pivots in 8 Days, Makes $500k on New Idea, How?
- ▶ 6:20 Sam Eitzen Selling or packaging a keep Seattle smiling box for Microsoft Seattle employees, but I'll take another company, another tech company, for example, that had headquarters in New York, Austin, San Francisco, and Seattle.
HireClub: How 32k Member FB Group Fueled $25k MRR SaaS Business
- ▶ 4:45 Ketan Anjaria This is only in San Francisco to start.
QuestionPro Hits $20m Revenue, $5m Cash In Bank, Selling 60% Of Company For $50m Next?
- ▶ 18:11 Vivek Bhaskaran No, we have one in San Francisco. 5 times in the scene
GetRocket Has $1.6m In Bank, $5m 2019 Revenues, 100 Customers They Recruit For
- ▶ 4:04 Abhinav Agrawal Um, you know, our typical, uh, percentage fee is anywhere from 20 to 30% of, uh, first year base salaries, so they're getting anywhere from three to four hires, a little bit lower if they're in the Bay Area or New York City and the comp is…
Tyler Tringas: How Earnest Capital Hopes to Re-Invent Startup Investing
- ▶ 0:27 Nathan Latka Followed his wife to San Francisco, and when she got a State Department job in Buenos Aires, they took that flight down there, and Tyler built the original MVP for his new company called StoreMapper on that flight.
- ▶ 19:26 Tyler Tringas Okay, do I go spend the money to fly out there in the hotel and the rental car and all that sort of stuff, you know. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:41:27 Nathan Latka We touched on all the way back since Tyler in 2008, getting into the energy sector, uh, then left the energy sector in 2011, well actually stayed in it, but launched his own company, SolarList, raised 400 came to that product, learned…
FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space
- ▶ 8:05 Nathan Latka And I don't think you're this kind of entrepreneur because you're not in San Francisco and you haven't raised a hundred million dollars and some crazy valuation, but so many CEOs come on all the time and brag about customer numbers, which…
Dialpad CEO "We'll break $100m in 2020, comfortable burning $1m/mo, $45m in bank"
- ▶ 15:47 Craig Walker So we, uh, we started in downtown San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?
- ▶ 16:55 Jason Hsiao We have a handful of folks in San Francisco and then some other folks all over the world.
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?
- ▶ 1:53 Nathan Latka He's a product designer from Boston, now living in San Francisco, and he's the co-founder and design lead at the company, Slides Up. 4 times in the scene
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital
- ▶ 14:57 Albert Wenger And, um, and then I, I kind of remember walking down, um, Market Street in San Francisco, and it kind of clicked.
"He Hit $1m in Revenue Helping SaaS Founders Build MVP's "
- ▶ 2:49 Nathan Latka No, one of my, this is like, I don't, I never really talk about this publicly because, uh, it just has never occurred to me, but, um, I, I like slowly in San Francisco, New York city got invited into these like super high end kind of Texas…
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works
- ▶ 42:58 Nathan Latka So like a founder listening right now going, okay, I had office in San Francisco, but like we're shutting that down because of the virus.
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