valuation

also referred to as: valuations

10 statements across 10 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Jun 14, 2016 by Madison Wickham · across every show →

Everything said about valuation, oldest first

Jun 14, 2016
Insight
Pre-revenue startups can invent valuations; revenue creates a strict baseline
“As soon as you start generating revenue, then it gives investors a metric to use as a basis for valuation prior to generating revenue. You can just totally pull numbers out of your ass”
Madison Wickham Jun 14, 2016 ▶ 17:12 Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham
Jul 28, 2016 neutral
Disclosure
Kale: AppZen's $2M round was valued close to $10M pre-money
“Very, very close.”
Anant Kale Jul 28, 2016 ▶ 10:01 EP 369: 22 Customers Pay $50K/Year SaaS AppZen.com with Anant Kale
Mar 28, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Ramsey: Sauce Labs reached a $152M post-money valuation in funding round
“Well, our valuation was one 52.”
Charles Ramsey Mar 28, 2017 ▶ 16:58 EP 612: Sauce Labs Raises $130M (At Great Valuation!) Helping 3500 Customers Execute Concurrent and Parallel High Fidelity Testing with CEO Charles Ramsey
Jun 10, 2017 negative
Insight
Golan: Valuation is meaningless if deal terms are crazy
“Valuation is bullshit if you have crazy terms. And the terms mathematically simply by math are far more important than the actual valuation.”
Danny Golan Jun 10, 2017 ▶ 10:39 686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan
Aug 29, 2018 negative
Insight
SaaS revenue predictability and high market multiples are significantly overstated
“Valuation is an art more than a science, and this notion that SaaS revenue is the it's all predictable, and therefore a command site, that's actually not what I've seen in the markets.”
Jay Habegger Aug 29, 2018 ▶ 8:57 1131 We do $70m Annually in Buyer Data Space, 50% Gross Margin
Jul 4, 2021
Insight
Beckor: Founder Track Record Directly Determines Pre-Product Valuation
“It's really about having a track, the more, the bigger the track record you have, the higher the number you can go. And that's really what it's down to.”
Jack Beckor Jul 4, 2021 ▶ 18:55 How Knowledge Hacking App Raised $20m Pre Product at $100m Valuation
Sep 21, 2021 positive
Disclosure
SalesImpact prepares to raise funding at $80M pre-money valuation
“So we're about to raise again now at an AT pre.”
Paul Fifield Sep 21, 2021 ▶ 14:13 SalesImpact In Talks to Raise $6m at $80m Valuation as they pass $4.5m Run Rate For Their Sales Coaching Platform
Sep 26, 2021 neutral
Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 2020
QuantHub raised its 2020 priced round at an $8M pre-money valuation
“We raised it an eight million dollar pre.”
Matt Cowell Sep 26, 2021 ▶ 10:25 Quanthub Helps you Hire Engineers, Raised $2m on $8m Valuation, On Track to Break $1m ARR
May 8, 2022 bearish
Opinion
Huthmeyer: Micro-SaaS acquisition targets are currently overvalued
“Spent a lot of time, quite frankly, so far valuations are really high. So I wanna, you know, it doesn't help me to buy something that's overvalued.”
Norbert Huthmeyer May 8, 2022 ▶ 11:33 Hacker Buys a SaaS Project for $7,500, Now Does $120,000 in Revenue
Feb 4, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Spiegel: Glorified ChatGPT wrappers will face valuation reckoning and crash
“And so I do think we're going to see my guess is that we see a little bit of a reckoning on some of these crazy valuations on some of these companies that are again, just glorified chat GPT rappers. So I think we'll see a little bit of a crash on some of those…”
Matt Spiegel Feb 4, 2026 ▶ 25:29 How to Scale to $12M ARR: The Serial Founder Playbook for Vertical SaaS and Agentic AI
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