9 statements across 7 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Jan 20, 2016 by Trisha Roy · said 104 times in 52 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Nathan Latka (13), Rajesh Jain (10), Peter Sisson (6), Dmitry Okunev (6), Trisha Roy (5), Ankit Nagpal (4), Utkarsh Kawatra (3), Tony Mumo (3)
tap a year for its mentions
2025 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 20 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode
- Private, Bootstrapped, & Profitable: How Rajesh Jain Scaled to Over $100M As a Solo Founder
- How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team
- We hit 4 Scaling Crisis between $0 and $70m ARR, here's how I solved them
- 27 year old Founder exited for $169m at $50m ARR. How much cash did he take home at exit?
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 22 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- First time Kenyan Founder Uses $1.50 FB Ads to Get First 100 Users, 64 DAU
- The King of India Workspaces: How he Logged 20k Bookings Last Month and Took Home $30,000
- 18 Month Old Startup Already Has 3 Customers Paying $100k/yr. Is AI over valued?
- Zero to $1m in 12 Months, how he used personal brand to scale SaaS Fast
- $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
- Team of 12 Hits $2.5m in ARR, $64m Valuation for Customer Success Tool. Can they beat Gainsight?
- Helping a bootstrapped founder go from Twitter only to omni-channel marketing to grow past $1M ARR
- Bootstrapped to $30m By Acquiring Smaller Companies for 2x, How Question Pro Did It
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- He's spending $40k on MVP then plans to hire 50 sales reps commission only per month. Will it work?
- How this pre-revenue SaaS startup raised $1m last week at a $5m cap
- How we grew our GovTech SaaS from $50k to $350k ARR in the last 12 months
- I love these guys. 3 co-Founders bootstrap to $2m in ARR. Beautiful business.
- Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation
- $1m ARR to $50m in 28 Months. This AML KYC SaaS Is A Secret Unicorn, only $6.5m Raised
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 12 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- PostoPlan Hits $30k MRR, Raises $500k For Social Scheduling Tool in Spain, Mexico, and Argentina
- Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019
- How This 29 Year Old Bought a Micro-SaaS for $20k To Save Time
- How Lately Plans to Break $1m in ARR, Raising Now at $10m Valuation
- Customer Support SaaS Hits $60k MRR Using On Prem Installations, Raising $1m at $10m Valuation
- Premise Breaks $20m Revenue, $400m+ Valuation in Two Sided Marketplace Play for Consumer Data and Feedback
- GlobeChain Lists Waste Products, Does $1.6m in ARR in SaaS Enabled Marketplace Model
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2019 7 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- 1435 Live Chat For Business Passes $5m in ARR, 31,000 Customers, Bootstrapped
- 1478 The Art of the Start: First $1k in MRR and How He Did It
- 1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise
- 1451 Spanish Speaking Verticalized ChatBot Company Closing $10k/mo+ Deals
- 1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication
- 1362 How Troops AI Became #1 Slack Integration, $1m+ in ARR, $17m Raised
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering
- 1122 Sales Tech CEO "We've Passed $30m in ARR", 70% yoy growth
- 1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"
- 1154 How we hit net churn of -5% in Loyalty Program space
- 1076 We pivoted to pure play SaaS, now $1m in ARR growing 100% yoy
- 912 SaaS: Internet Hacker Builds Bootstrapped Productivity Tool, Passes $2.4m in ARR
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 6 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- 803: SaaS: Email He Used To Get From $0 to $10k MRR
- 787: Crypto: With $163m Raised, He Launched the #1 ICO
- 771: $320M King of Mobile App Installs
- 691: King of Amazon Pricing Raises $33M, Helping 500 Sellers Make More Money
- 649: HolaGus $1.4M Raised Helping Clients Automate Support with AI with CEO Pablo Estevez
- EP 611: VSee Helping 1000 Customers Use Video To Transact Information with CEO Milton Chen
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about WhatsApp, oldest first
Jan 20, 2016 positive
Barn & Willow manages India manufacturing operations via WhatsApp
“A lot of our stitching, the on-demand drapery stitching happens in India, and everyone in India is on WhatsApp, so I'm continuously coordinating with my operations manager, with our craftsmen, they're sending me pictures of when they're making the products, On…”
Nov 7, 2018 positive
Feb 8, 2021 positive
Dec 9, 2022 negative
Nagpal: Indian consumers ignore email, relying on WhatsApp and SMS instead
“There are scheduling software available like Calendly and many other, but they are mostly email. And nobody reads email. So I mean, people do not read email in my country. Usually they are like older people. They usually check SMS and WhatsApp.”
Nov 3, 2023
Dec 24, 2024 bullish
Dec 24, 2024 bullish
Dec 24, 2024 positive
Latka: India SaaS using WhatsApp outgrows US SaaS using Slack
“So, like, what I will tell you is you are seeing incredibly fast-growing India companies that are building WhatsApp groups for their SaaS businesses, growing much faster than their U.S. Counterparts, trying to drive everyone into a Slack channel.”
Jun 10, 2025
Zitoun: Submagic built its product with first 100 customers via WhatsApp
“What I would suggest to any founders is like the first hundred customers of Submagic, I took on Stripe the information. I reached out to them. I say, send me a text message, please. I will give you like a discount for the next month, but please send me a text …”