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They Used ProductHunt to Make $60,000 for their New SaaS, 6,000 signups
- ▶ 0:53 Nathan Latka Before CLAP, Pierre was VP of Marketing at Three 60 Learning, a soft bank-backed company, famous for its async and distributed culture.
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post
- ▶ 20:59 Nathan Latka How do you give work to SoftBank? 4 times in the scene
FreightWaves Hits $30m Revenue, Spends No Money on CAC, Media Business Winning
- ▶ 23:39 Nathan Latka Uh, SoftBank is famous for just lighting money on fire. 2 times in the scene
$500k Consulting to $45m Prop Tech VC Fund
- ▶ 13:23 Nathan Latka SoftBank pushed the raise, obviously, but ultimately didn't create value in terms of market capitalization.
FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation
- ▶ 11:44 Oren Zaslansky I mean, that's honestly, I think the number one reason why, uh, SoftBank made the investment as they did is they looked at the hard science, the hard, uh, the algorithms, the mathematicians, the data scientists that we employ to not just…
- ▶ 13:38 Nathan Latka Um, talk to me about SoftBank. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:06 Nathan Latka SoftBank comes and says,
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"
- ▶ 7:06 Jonah Goodhart Uh, SoftBank put in a little bit of money as well, but it was predominantly Mayfield
1219 Will Prosperworks and it's 10,000 Paying Customers Win CRM Wars?
1213 Kabbage CEO: We've lent $5b to 150,000 SMB's, Will Pass $300m in 2018 Revenue
- ▶ 2:15 Rob Frohwein Um, so we, uh, so yeah, so over, over the summer, last summer, we, uh, raised some money from SoftBank, um, uh, obviously of, uh, of, of fame, of investing a fair amount of money in a bunch of businesses, a good group of folks who really… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:19 Nathan Latka So SoftBank has made a major investment in you. 3 times in the scene
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund
- ▶ 24:13 Nathan Latka SoftBank's a hundred billion dollar fund is essentially creating monopolies in certain areas, in certain countries, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:13 David Skok And so coming, having a soft bank come in and fund the buying of a market like that with tactics which are effectively, um, you know, pouring money into competing in a non-profitable way, that's very hard to compete against. 2 times in the scene
1079 How He's Pivoted 3 Times Since 1996, Moving to Cloud Based SaaS w/ $10m in ARR
- ▶ 6:28 Zoran Stamer Then, 203 was tough for us, because our customers at that point in time were the big telco companies, like Vodafone in Europe, and SoftBank, Japan, T-Mobile, and they had to cut
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...
- ▶ 3:03 Luke Beatty Uh, there were, no, I mean, I think they did, but they definitely weren't thrown around the way they are, uh, today, although I think that's, that's also starting to, um, the sun's setting on a little bit of those sort of open note, uh,…
955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library
- ▶ 17:42 Michael Karnjanaprakorn As of late, I've been doing a lot of research into the CEO of SoftBank. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:59 Michael Karnjanaprakorn There's a great YouTube interview that just came out about a month ago where they interviewed him for about 20 and 25 minutes about, you know, his, like, story and how he starts off bank and how he started a hundred billion dollar venture…
859 How Kabbage Took Small Business Lending Crown: $500m raised, $4b Lended
- ▶ 0:01 Nathan Latka Just raised a two hundred fifty million dollar round from SoftBank, five hundred million raised total, but more important than any amount of funding he's raised, the value, value, value, value, a 120,000 small businesses, uh, getting…
- ▶ 13:44 Rob Frohwein We just raised a, uh, two hundred fifty million dollar round from SoftBank, uh, corporation.
- ▶ 21:38 Nathan Latka From Rob, founder of Cabbage, just raised a two hundred fifty million dollar round from SoftBank.
827: VC: $140m FinTech, InsurTech Fund on How They Invest
- ▶ 6:10 unnamed speaker Um, we're co-investors in Next Capital together, for example, um, and they've put others on the table, and occasionally we'll, we'll shoot deals we're looking at by them for their insights, because we respect their opinion, and so, um, the…
He Sits on Spotify Board
- ▶ 10:36 Frank Meehan Oh no, so when it comes to the Asian companies, so that's where it's more like SoftBank, um, and, you know, Sequoia is actually the big, you know, we're not, our companies in Asia are much earlier stage, um, but Sequoia is the biggest…