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890 SaaS: Self Serve Infographics Tool Hits $250k MRR
886 SaaS: 27 Year Old Breaks $240m in Annual Revenue, Piping of the Internet
- ▶ 1:19 Nathan Latka He studied aerospace engineering at MIT and fell into the world of customer data and analysis when he had, and when he and three of his college friends started segment in 2011 as part of Y Combinator.
- ▶ 6:11 Peter Reinhart Uh, so we were excited about it, and a bunch of professors were excited about it, and we got some funding coming out of Y Combinator Demo Day, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:00 Nathan Latka It's YC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:49 Peter Reinhart Also, one weird thing we did, we did try to take advantage of the fact that we were a Y Combinator company in a, in one particularly interesting way. 6 times in the scene
823: SaaS: Pre Rev SF Based with $3.3m Raised Aiming to Help SMB's Build Mobile Apps, Will People Pay?
- ▶ 0:00 Nathan Latka In late 2015, early 20 16, gotten to why Combinator has since raised 3.3 million bucks, team of 10 in San Francisco, helping millions of folks across their platform quickly build mobile applications.
- ▶ 1:29 Nathan Latka He's the co-founder and CEO of a company called Thunkable, a Y Combinator-backed startup in San Francisco.
- ▶ 3:24 Nathan Latka Arun, spoken like a true Y Combinator, San Francisco based company.
- ▶ 11:44 Arun Saigal They started another MIT Y Combinator, et cetera, back company.
- ▶ 15:53 Nathan Latka Got into Y Combinator.
817: SaaS: DemandBase Raises $65m More, $90m+ ARR, Leading ABM Space, IPO Next?
- ▶ 15:45 Nathan Latka So like when you look at a Y Combinator company, P&L, and you start calling into their customer base, if you're buying because of due diligence, you start realizing you're calling a bunch of other Y Combinator companies paying 50 bucks a… 2 times in the scene
812: Crypto: $3m Raised, He's Build the SSL for Cryptocurrency
- ▶ 16:11 Nathan Latka When you raise that three million dollars, I mean, I imagine you're not using a safe from YC or a convertible note or a typically priced series A set of docks.
810: SaaS: With $70m Raised, White Board Videos Secret to VidYard 2x YoY Growth
- ▶ 6:19 Michael Litt That's a value that we carried forward from YC.
- ▶ 12:15 Michael Litt Um, you know, if you get all those elements of strategy right, it's, it's, it's possible to continuously double, but the amount of horsepower it requires is interesting because if you think about, you know, five years of selling since we…
762: 4000 Developers Pay Them To Catch Bugs, $9.5m Raised
- ▶ 4:45 James Smith It was a white combinator company, uh, that was in the gaming space.
- ▶ 5:44 Nathan Latka It had a Y Combinator name on it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:13 James Smith And so yeah, with the, with the Hayes app situation, I was first employee, early person in, in a YC company.
739: How Has She Has 3x'd Revenue to $700k MRR in Just 11 Months?
- ▶ 1:12 Nathan Latka She went to Y Combinator in the summer of 2014, and today Front has 40 employees and 1700 customers.
721: 543 Upvotes Got Him on HackerNews Front Page
- ▶ 4:35 Owen Sadeghpour So I posted a few articles on Hacker News, which is Y Combinator's news stream, and it landed on the main page.
706: This 31 Year Old Raised $1.3M To Help You Be More Efficient
- ▶ 4:42 Vinay Patankar The YC safe basically. 2 times in the scene
705: With $8.8M Raised, Is This The Ultimate Machine Learning Tool?
- ▶ 0:45 Nathan Latka He's the co-founder and CEO of SIG opt a Y Combinator and, uh, and, uh, Andreessen Horwitz backed optimization as a service
- ▶ 10:00 Scott Clark Went through Y Combinator in winter 15. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:06 Nathan Latka He's since gone through Y Combinator, had Andreessen Horowitz lead his first round, 8.8 million raised, team of 13.
703: The "Accidental" $10k/mo Side Project
- ▶ 3:27 Nathan Latka In other words, he didn't do a kiss or a save for one of these YC notes that you're, you're hearing about.
702: With $5k Left in Her Bank TheMuse Was Launched, 50m Visit Annually and 600 Companies Pay
- ▶ 17:52 Catherine Minshew So we raised, uh, gosh, we raised about a hundred K in January of, um, plus we got into Y Combinator.
638: Alternative Investment Ideas, His Book Deal Included 10% Royalty, $100k Advance from Entrepreneur Patrick McGinnis
- ▶ 7:59 Patrick McGinnis I have one called Blue Smart, which is a smart suitcase company, and they went through Y Combinator.
EP 604: Lumo Accelerator Invests $150k in VRee To Give You Full Body Virtual Reality Experiences with CEO Andy Lurling
- ▶ 2:43 Nathan Latka And are you, are you following kind of a tech stars and white combinator model?
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma
- ▶ 12:32 Nathan Latka That's come out, came out of YC.
EP 597: Nova.ai Passes 100 Customers, $2.2M Raised To Help SDR's Sell More Using AI with CEO Will Dinkel
- ▶ 6:36 Will Dinkel Oh man, you know, uh, in, in true YC fashion, um, yeah, we do it all in safes. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:41 Nathan Latka So fast forward us, you launched in 2015, you go through YC, you raised, you know, two and a quarter. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:37 Nathan Latka So coming right out of YC and kind of raising the capital, 2016, obviously you, you did X amount of revenue.
- ▶ 16:32 Will Dinkel Uh, you know, there's another company that we went through YC with, and I think their CEO's brilliant.
- ▶ 18:43 Nathan Latka Just got done going through Y Combinator.
EP 587: Revue Raises $350k, Helping 1000 Customers Send Personal Newsletters with CEO Martijn De Kuijper
- ▶ 9:43 Nathan Latka What did you do like a safe, the YC safe or a kiss?
EP 585: CaliberMinds Raises $1.1M Helping 12 Customers Close B2B Leads Using More Intelligence with CEO Raviv Turner
- ▶ 15:58 Nathan Latka She's the founder of Y Combinator backed Flight Fox.
EP 584: FlightFox YC Founder: We Talk About When To Quit All The Time, $700k Revenue, Making Travel Way Easier with CEO Lauren Sullivan
- ▶ 10:25 Lauren Sullivan Uh, we raised about eight 50, uh, K, um, and that was just before we went into YC. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:44 Nathan Latka That was pre Y Combinator.
EP 583: Socedo Does $1.5M+ In 2016, $200K MRR Now Helping 200 Customers Close More Leads with CEO Aseem Badshah
- ▶ 0:52 Nathan Latka This is episode, and coming up tomorrow morning, you're going to hear a YC founder, Y Combinator founder, the founder of Flight Fox, say the following.
EP 570: GrowSumo Helping 70 B2B SaaS Companies Grow Affiliate Programs, $100k New MRR So Far with CEO Bryn Jones
- ▶ 19:30 Nathan Latka Now he's running Grow Sumo, a YC graduate, helping 70 B to B SaaS companies grow their affiliate programs.
EP 569: GrowSumo Helping 70 B2B SaaS Companies Grow Affiliate Programs, $100k New MRR So Far with CEO Bryn Jones
- ▶ 1:22 Nathan Latka GrowSumo graduated from Y Combinator's summer, and they're building a marketplace for influencer programs.
- ▶ 11:14 Bryn Jones Um, but we came out of Y Combinator. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:55 Nathan Latka He's a CEO and founder of GrowSumo, went through YC, did a 120 K obviously on their program.
EP 550: Attentive Raises $150K in Portugal to Solve Sales Problem with CEO Daniel Araujo
- ▶ 8:09 Nathan Latka Was that on a YC safe or a node or an equity round or what?
EP 542: HipLead Hits $120k MRR Helping 30 Customers Get More Leads with CEO COnor Lee
- ▶ 1:48 Nathan Latka Telfi, which was in Y Combinator winter, 20 11 batch.
- ▶ 2:01 Nathan Latka Hey, tell us real quick, uh, because you're not doing Telfi now, and that was in Y Combinator winter, 20 11. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:23 Connor Lee Friends that were in YC, um, had companies before they were in YC and, um, that had just crazy cap tables, right?
EP 538: Nexd.io Raises $1m Pre-Rev, Aims $6M Series A For Smart Sales Automation with Founder James and CEO Larry
- ▶ 10:18 unnamed speaker I'll actually, so like, uh, Y Combinator just had a really good article in the last week or so.
EP 529: $10m Raised, Pre-Revenue, Notion.ai Adds AI to Email Messaging with Co-Founder Guy Suter
- ▶ 10:21 Nathan Latka Why see back those kinds of guys?