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He Lost $50/User to Build a $30M ARR AI Empire (Fathom)
- ▶ 10:40 Richard White And I actually found a way to kind of like push myself onto a team that happened to be in the first batch of Y Combinator, which at the time didn't mean anything.
- ▶ 23:50 Nathan Latka Guys, he cut his teeth in one of the first batches of YC, this is from the 2006 or seven, ended up putting in his time, his startup, his startup education at user voice almost 18 years there before saying, you know what, let's get fathom…
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook
- ▶ 20:00 Ben Currin And then kind of the, the big bang moment for us was, uh, late, uh, we acquired a, a small kind of business, really almost aqua hired a couple of, of really talented partners out of Y Combinator, a company called HOAI that joined, uh,…
- ▶ 22:17 Nathan Latka And they did with a minority investment from JNI, an acquihire of a YC company in 2024, now investing in growth.
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies
- ▶ 13:24 Bassem Hamdi I think AI right now has a lot of like Y Combinator kind of fugazi with a couple of people and, you know, a chat GPT wrapper.
Mobile App King: 2 Lines of Code Make Him $3.6 Million Per Year
- ▶ 11:36 Jake Moore And then, um, I raised some money, got into Y Combinator and sold it when I got to around four million in ARR. 2 times in the scene
Genius Affiliate Strategy Helps Bootstrapper Hit $27,000,000 Revenue
- ▶ 16:57 Rebecca Shostak We, we went through Y Combinator startup school and like the word was just starting to get out a tiny bit about us in our very close friend circles.
13 Lessons I Learned Bootstrapping to $20m in Revenues
- ▶ 11:33 Liam Martin And one other statistic, which I'll push to you guys, is pre-COVID, Y Combinator saw that 16% of their startups were started remotely.
How He hit $12k monthly revenue building the Zapier for Data
- ▶ 12:26 Nathan Latka Well, like, can my listeners apply to become part of Momentum like they could, YC, or these other firms?
How we built a successful sales team and scaled to +$10m ARR
- ▶ 1:06 Samir Smajic Although, went through Y Combinator back in the days.
Rare! A YC company that profits $300k/mo, $25m revenue
- ▶ 18:56 Ivan Sabayev So totally, we raised around ten million from Y Combinator and a few other investors.
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats
- ▶ 13:33 Brett Hurt Y Combinator said it was one of the top five most capital efficient SaaS businesses of all time.
How I Helped Rippling Hire Their First 5 CSM's after $45m Series A, and lessons from Gorgias, other SaaS Brands on building CSM teams
- ▶ 13:14 unnamed speaker But, they're YC alums, they had some impressive revenue growth last year, and they have the most impressive conversion rate I have ever seen.
How SafetyWing Doubled ARR to $24m and Closed Series B at $195m Post Money Valuation
- ▶ 1:58 Sondre Rasch 20 16 right after a combination for me and Frederick, you know, we we both came from policy.
- ▶ 12:22 Sondre Rasch We have raised, so we've raised a total of fifty three million dollars, actually quite a bit, uh, through a series run, so we raised, we did Y Combinator in 2018, seed run three and a half, 2019, um, in 2020 series A eight million, and now…
How MozartData Hit $2m ARR By Moving Upstream AND Opening Top of Funnel
- ▶ 7:42 Nathan Latka So I guess the reason I bring that up is obviously every startup, you also sold seven percent to YC back in the day for a 150 K you're, you're part of that program.
Paragon Grew from $1m to $3m ARR Last 12 Months to Help you Connect To your customers apps faster
- ▶ 1:18 Nathan Latka He's a two-time Y Combinator alumni with Forbes, 30 under 30 recipient as well, and graduated in math and economics from UCLA where he co-founded Bruin Entrepreneurs, UCLA's largest entrepreneurship organization.
- ▶ 7:21 Brandon Foo I think, uh, we raised, uh, we went through Y Combinator in winter, 2020. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:51 Brandon Foo So the great thing about the YC network is that you have a lot of folks who are eager to try your product. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:14 Brandon Foo I'll give you two, both YC companies, VimCal for calendar and Sansama for task management.
Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?
- ▶ 18:47 Hooman Radfar It's a YC safe that will convert.
How he hit $2m ARR in 24 months for Ecommerce Support SaaaS, Raised at $20m valuation
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation
- ▶ 4:21 Nathan Latka Is it like YC?
SMB Tax App hits $20k MRR by getting 1k+ Signups and Converting 20-50% to $35/mo paid accounts
- ▶ 15:51 Nathan Latka Does Adler, is this sort of typical sort of YC, seven percent for 125 K sort of deal?
Venture Studio Spinout Hits $250m Valuation for Clean Data Room SaaS
- ▶ 15:26 Matt Kilmartin Um, you know, I think superset's a little bit different than like Y Combinator and some of the other folks like that, because, you know, the, the, um, the, uh, they play sort of very operational roles.
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly
- ▶ 24:17 Bailey Pumfleet I'd probably show myself, um, I'd probably put my fifteen-year-old self through YC or something like that, you know, open my eyes to the world of startups, fundraising, and all the cool stuff you can get up to.
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised
- ▶ 6:21 Julian Delane So you have this safe from my combinator that is right now pretty used, uh, for all the startups.
This Pendo plus Loom Startup Just Got First Paying Customer, $3m Valuation
- ▶ 7:57 Ohad Ronan And we also have, uh, Aronaris that is, was, uh, um, partner in Y Combinator and a lot of like great people in the cap table that help us to grow.
How to Sell $50k Contracts on Day 1 of your Startup
- ▶ 14:01 Nathan Latka Now you raised 1.2 million total plus another 175,000 from YC. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:24 Nathan Latka Just, uh, went into YC as well as a team of six.
DevOps Tool Fig Raised $2.2m in 2020, Now Approaching 100k MAU's, Whats Next?
- ▶ 1:04 Nathan Latka The company has raised 2.2 million from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, and executive, uh, and founders at Stripe, GitHub, Heroku.
- ▶ 14:20 Brendan Falk We got into YC. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:38 Brendan Falk I wish I knew to focus explicitly on like what YC calls a hair on fire problem, a really, really painful thing.
- ▶ 19:58 Nathan Latka Guys, Brennan Falk, fig.io, first line of code written in twenty-twenty, came out at YC, raised 2.2 million, sold about 10 to 15% of the business. 2 times in the scene
Mozart Helps You Clean Your Data, $0 to $750k ARR in 12 Months, $6m Seed
- ▶ 3:21 Peter Fishman Uh, so we did Y Combinator that summer and then raised the seed round, uh, after Y Combinator. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:39 Peter Fishman So in, at the end of Y Combinator, uh, we, we made 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:08 Peter Fishman Um, so, you know, when, when you're in YC. 2 times in the scene
LATAM SaaS + IoT Grows 10x to $1.2m in ARR, $3.7m Round at $15m Valuation
- ▶ 1:05 Nathan Latka They were the first IoT company in LatAm to be funded by Y Combinator.
- ▶ 11:51 Igor Marinelli We've raised 3.7 million bucks and in seed round, uh, that was a Y Cominator together with Soma Capital and other US funds.
300% YoY Growth, $1.5m Revenue Now Helping Dev Teams Manage Output
- ▶ 8:36 Hirsch Tapadia I know YC's 2 times in the scene
100% YoY Growth to $1.5m ARR Today Helping Brands Unlock Consumer Data With Rewards
- ▶ 12:34 Anik Clary Like what we worked off of was essentially like we did the whole YC safe model. 3 times in the scene
SoloSuit Makes $80k/mo Helping Consumers Fight Bank Debt Collectors
- ▶ 8:47 George Simons And then from there I worked with another Y Combinator company doing content
- ▶ 12:18 Nathan Latka So, so, um, it's not that you've mentioned YC, you mentioned disrupt. 2 times in the scene
Document Signing API Mindee Hits $1.5m in ARR, Closes $14m Series A
- ▶ 15:19 Jonathan Grunpion We were in the white combinator batch of winter, uh, twenty-twenty-one. 6 times in the scene
Productivity App Hits $2500 MRR, Raising $1.5m on $10m Valuation
- ▶ 1:09 Nathan Latka He managed the innovation department and the spin-offs like in food, e-sports, technology, and affiliates, and then founded Akiflo, which got funded by YC
- ▶ 5:25 Nunzio Martinello We got into YC, uh, we did demo day, but around demo day, we had a lot of, uh, uh, users that were using the product, but we also saw like a very bad, uh, retention and, uh,
- ▶ 9:51 Nunzio Martinello Um, just YC. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:23 Nathan Latka The point I'm trying to bring up, though, is a lot of people go, I want to get into YC, I want to get into YC, but they don't realize the negative, very real negative signaling risk, where if you leave YC and you do not raise on demo day,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:00 Nunzio Martinello Uh, we just gave seven percent to YC and then we raised the, uh, one point, uh, uh, one 50 K at a million dollar cap. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:01 Nathan Latka They've already raised 125 grand back from YC in 2019.
How He Built The Largest Rev Ops Community In The World (and $500k of revenue!)
- ▶ 8:42 Jared Robin They turned down Y Combinator, little quick story.
$500k Consulting to $45m Prop Tech VC Fund
- ▶ 13:43 Kunal Lunawat Um, it came out of Y Combinator's last cohort.
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)
- ▶ 1:13 Nathan Latka Program, often considered the Y Combinator of Israel.
What Happened: Only $7k in Bank, Now $4.5m ARR, 100% YoY Growth
- ▶ 15:30 Chris Federspiel Like YSE is like one 50 for six percent or something now.
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People
- ▶ 8:08 Phil Liu So I applied to Y Combinator, like, Paul Graham saw the revenue of the first few weeks, said, oh, come on, we want to interview you, and as you can see in the interview, we were quite bad, so we were, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:30 Nathan Latka So is it a blessing or a curse that you didn't get into YC a couple years ago?
Developer Goes from Freelancer to SaaS Founder With Simple Playbook (Copy it!)
- ▶ 3:19 Nathan Latka And it's so much more refreshing talking to you than like a YC founder who will come on and say, we're changing the world.
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.
- ▶ 1:41 Nathan Latka He's building a very cool company called Taloflow, which is a Y Combinator backed company in cloud management.
- ▶ 4:19 Nathan Latka Did the pivot happen while you were going through YC?
- ▶ 14:18 Nathan Latka So when you raised the 1.5 million dollars recently, and you were talking about to the continuity fund and some other super angels, what did they see in your story, your deck, your financials that they really liked?
Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?
- ▶ 8:27 Matteo Franceschetti The seed round was immediately after Y Combinator.
The Secret Dataset CPG Gods Use
- ▶ 10:00 Ryan Caldbeck You also have infrastructure like TechCrunch, Y Combinator, 2 times in the scene
He Exited for $600m, Started with 40%, Now Building YC and AngelList for Latin America
- ▶ 9:27 Nathan Latka You explained it to me as sort of like the YC, but for Latin America. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:57 Brian Requarth Um, you know, he, he did go through YC and then he's, you know,
SaaS CEO Launches PPE Factory, $10m Sales of Surgical Masks, American Made
- ▶ 1:37 Nathan Latka In just an eight, he co-founded, he founded OwnLocal, a Y Combinator backed startup responsible for generating three hundred million revenue for more than 3000 local publications over the last decade.
Mode Grows 95% to $19m ARR, Turning Analysis Into Superhero's
- ▶ 2:44 Derek Steer The valuation was like in the range of five million, which we, you know, we were just triangulating around like kind of standard YC evaluations at the time.
LeadGenius Hits $10m in Revenue, Growth Slow at 50% YoY Considering $25m Raised
- ▶ 5:18 Prayag Narula Uh, no, so we got some money from Y Combinator, 3 times in the scene
NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue
- ▶ 12:30 Nathan Latka On that first day or two of, of, of that post going live on Hacker News or Y Combinator, how many new email opt-ins did you get?
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com
- ▶ 39:10 Will Schroeder Uh, Y Combinator wouldn't come, come along for years after, and then all the people that copied them.
GitLab Hits $2.7b Valuation is 20x+ Revenue Multiple, 160%+ in Net Revenue Retention, 10,000 Customers
- ▶ 1:48 Nathan Latka A self-taught Ruby developer, he commercialized GitLab with its creator in 2012 and graduated from YC in 2015.
Tyler Tringas: How Earnest Capital Hopes to Re-Invent Startup Investing
- ▶ 12:15 Tyler Tringas Pretty normal to be going to tech stars, 500 startups, YC with like a proof of concept and all that sort of stuff.
- ▶ 19:32 Tyler Tringas Um, to take that chance or not, which I did, you know, I was like burning through frequent flyer miles to like fly my co-founder and I out to Palo Alto to go and, you know, we had like a Y Combinator, but, you know, interview
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?
- ▶ 7:16 Nathan Latka Is like a YC model, like a 101 150 for seven percent or what?
Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo?
- ▶ 4:55 Kunal Bhatia We launched about three years ago, um, and then went through a Y Combinator startup school in 2017.
- ▶ 7:34 Nathan Latka You mentioned you went through YC, so you've raised some. 2 times in the scene
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works
- ▶ 0:42 Nathan Latka They built that company via YC and ultimately sold to Google, but that partner, for some reason, refuses to acknowledge that Anar was a co-founder.
- ▶ 1:05 Nathan Latka Between 2005 and 2070 guest lectured at Cornell before jumping into in 2008 and finding an app called Remail with his co-founder, which later went through Y Combinator and eventually a couple of years later sued, sold to Google.
- ▶ 23:46 Einar Volset It's like we would, partly I was, it was, I think Gabor wanted to get into Y Combinator and PG has a very strong attitude that you should definitely have a co-founder. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:08 Nathan Latka and I know it's YC demo day. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:07 Nathan Latka So take us past, what happened in the days after YC Demo Day?
- ▶ 37:43 Einar Volset And so, uh, people just came out of the woodwork, like mostly YC companies saying like, Hey dude, like you worked at Remail. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:40 Einar Volset By, by this time, I saw the YC network, um, had grown enormously because there's, there's now so many more companies in that network.
- ▶ 54:06 Einar Volset Like I had someone come through from YC
- ▶ 1:03:11 Einar Volset And so what we saw was, so, so the way to think about it, if you know YC is like, YC effectively filled a pretty big hole in like a five or six, along with a couple other players, like first round capital. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:07 Einar Volset Like we, we don't like, we're sort of similar to YC and that, that we're, we're looking to effectively index broadly into the market. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:04 Nathan Latka Aynar Volset started with that PhD in computing science from Newcastle in 2005, went through the remail YC journey and then exited that in 2010, then got into M&A via left, left coast R&D first and then Discretion Capital.
They Spent $100k on MVP, Now Have Customers Expanding $100/mo to $1000/mo in First year, How!?
- ▶ 14:54 Nitin Verma Uh, so it's not really a business book, but, uh, I love reading Paul Graham's essays, uh, and I always fall back upon those, uh, so Paul Graham from YC.
How to Acquire a $180k Revenue SaaS Company for $3k With Ryan Kulp
- ▶ 0:00 Nathan Latka Started back in 2013 at a Techstars company, left in 2014 to join a YC company.
- ▶ 3:26 Ryan Kulp So I, I left that company and then jumped to a YC company called Keychain Logistics.
- ▶ 31:26 Nathan Latka Ryan Kopp started back in 2013 at a Techstars company, left in 2014 to join a YC company.
1751 SendBird Messaging SDK Sitting on $100m Cash, $20m in ARR
- ▶ 0:51 Nathan Latka He's the co-founder and CEO of Sendbird, a Y Combinator W-sixteen
- ▶ 2:20 John Kim and then we fully launched at the Y Combinator. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:26 Nathan Latka You get into YC with this idea. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:02 John Kim To be back by YC, but, uh, some, uh, well-known investors, uh, here in the area, uh, Shasta Ventures and August Capital at our series A, uh, of sixty million dollars.
- ▶ 20:51 John Kim Uh, it was recommended on Twitter by a multiple CEOs from YC.
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships
- ▶ 0:36 Nathan Latka He's an alumni of Y Combinator and has degrees in industrial engineering and business administration from the University of Missouri, Columbia.
- ▶ 9:38 Wade Foster You know, we went through YC, a big stakeholder for us, one of the larger stakeholders for us, and they continue to just provide a lot of useful value, even at the stage that we're at.
- ▶ 19:25 Nathan Latka But for example, YC's an investor, if they're able to see some of your backend and see which apps are actually taking off from, in terms of how many zaps per month, that allows them to make better investment decisions. 2 times in the scene
1693 He Gives Founders a CC, No Personal Gauruntee, Will Pass $1B GMV in 30 Day Period by 2020.
- ▶ 1:23 Enrique Dubugras And in the middle of Stanford, we got into Y Combinator, um, and in Y Combinator was actually a virtual reality idea. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36 Nathan Latka So you go through Y Combinator, you start working on Brex. 3 times in the scene
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