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He Lost $50/User to Build a $30M ARR AI Empire (Fathom)
- ▶ 11:10 Richard White It ended up as like an enterprise business that we were selling to like Yahoo and Microsoft and Netflix and Meta and stuff like that.
Private, Bootstrapped, & Profitable: How Rajesh Jain Scaled to Over $100M As a Solo Founder
- ▶ 9:27 Rajesh Jain Google and Yahoo both support it with Gmail. 3 times in the scene
She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah
Startup to $100Mn Proficorn: Building an enduring, bootstrapped, profitable and valuable SaaS business
- ▶ 4:40 Rajesh Jain Um, we were the first, started very close to the time Yahoo and eBay did, and I sold it five years later for hundred and fifteen million dollars.
He's $14m in ARR, Here's why he IPO'd and plans to grow 30% this year
- ▶ 13:28 Nathan Latka I'm on Yahoo Finance right now.
Professional Services Playbook: How we used services to bootstrap our way to $3m in SaaS revenue
- ▶ 26:27 Michael Maximoff So, we never email to anyone with, like, a Gmail, and Yahoo, and others.
She spent $100k on an agency for MVP, now has 11 FTE's and $1m ARR helping 55 brands teach their teams faster
- ▶ 0:59 Nathan Latka She's been leading teams for more than 20 years as an executive at both big tech companies and scaling startups, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and change.org.
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how
- ▶ 4:09 Godard Abel I don't even know if anyone knows who Jerry is anymore, but he started Yahoo, which was actually really big before Google, and, uh, so just been a really exciting career in SaaS, and I have learned a lot, and I'm still learning.
$12m profits, Bootstrapped, $95m ARR out of India
- ▶ 6:39 Rajesh Jain So we, I started just around the time Yao and eBay did.
Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Communities
- ▶ 6:38 Siavash Mahmudian Then I built like this Yahoo messenger where it connected like experts to Yahoo messenger together. 2 times in the scene
Egypt Based Seafood Marketplace Launches, Does 70 Orders, Makes 15% Commission
- ▶ 13:50 Nathan Latka Number three, what's your favorite online tool for building a Yahoo?
Bootstrapped to $4m, $2m profits, Wants to Exit by End Of Year
- ▶ 4:15 Adam Robinson It's primarily a B to C tool because all the, all the emails are like Gmail, Hotmail, um, Yahoo and stuff like that, but we actually give you the person.
Gainsight Paid Him $10k+ To Figure Out Sales in 2013, What He Recommends Now
- ▶ 2:48 Richard Harris I was using a Yahoo email address. 2 times in the scene
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com
- ▶ 39:35 Will Schroeder Somewhere along the way, a few years into it, up until this point, I'm funding each of these ideas myself, and these are all SaaS companies, um, and this new thing had just been introduced to the market called performance advertising, uh,…
Dialpad CEO "We'll break $100m in 2020, comfortable burning $1m/mo, $45m in bank"
- ▶ 1:54 Nathan Latka He was the first entrepreneur in residence at Google Ventures and CEO of Dialpad Communications before it became Yahoo Voice. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:12 Craig Walker Yeah, starting something new from scratch, and the hardest thing with any startup is getting a great name or URL, and so we ended up buying the name back from Yahoo. 6 times in the scene
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?
- ▶ 7:04 Jason Hsiao Look at Google, look at Yahoo, look at, you know, about Netscape, and like, you gotta have to figure out how to do this for free, and we're like, no, we think that if we can do something well enough, people will pay for it, and so we kind…
Albert Wenger on Work After Capital
- ▶ 0:03 Nathan Latka We started in 2005 when he joined Delicious before selling to Yahoo, after which he joined Union Square Ventures full time and make big investments in companies like Twitter.
- ▶ 1:28 Nathan Latka After that, got into management consulting, hosted data and analytics, and eventually became the president of Delicious before it sailed to Yahoo.
- ▶ 9:02 Albert Wenger Add the company formation for Delicious, and then Delicious was acquired nine months after formation by Yahoo. 2 times in the scene
1751 SendBird Messaging SDK Sitting on $100m Cash, $20m in ARR
- ▶ 0:58 Nathan Latka The platform currently serves tens of millions of monthly active users and many of the best known logos around the world, like Yahoo sports hinge and one of the most active websites in the world.
1542 She Spends $300k/mo on Sponsored Instagram Posts
1509 How mParticle Hit $36m ARR, 150% Net Revenue Retention Helping F500 Brands Manage User Records
- ▶ 0:53 Nathan Latka He previously served as vice president of optimization and analytics at Yahoo, where he came via the
- ▶ 7:27 Michael Katz We took that public in 2009, subsequently selling it to Yahoo in 2011. 5 times in the scene
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"
- ▶ 2:37 Nathan Latka He was also the founding investor and board member of Right Media, which was acquired by Yahoo, founding partner of WGI Group, and co-founder of Billions.org.
1449 How Dad of 3 Manages Life and $600K ARR Business
- ▶ 2:03 Nathan Latka He lives at the top of the funnel ever since he landed at Yahoo via acquisition in 2007. 6 times in the scene
1384 CyberSecurity SaaS CarbonBlack Passes $200m ARR Charging $30/Device/per
- ▶ 17:45 Nathan Latka Carbon, black, Yahoo, finance.
1321 How he got his first $10k in MRR competing with Wistia
- ▶ 0:07 Nathan Latka I don't know if you saw me on the Stock Exchange floor, or on Fox, or Yahoo, or Cheddar, or CBS, but it was unbelievable, and, uh, the pictures I'll put up on my social, but the book is live.
1320 $14m in ARR on $2.9m Raised Inventing New Visual Way to Code Service 3000 Freelancers
- ▶ 0:19 Nathan Latka Again, I was on Fox and Yahoo.
Capitalistbook.com: My SaaS book LIVE today ($6.5m Error)
- ▶ 17:52 Nathan Latka I thought, if Mark Zuckerberg could turn down Yahoo's billion dollar offer to buy Facebook in 2006, and my peers were getting nine figure deals, 6.5 million bucks was nothing.
Fast Trick: How Your Competitors Are Getting Customers
- ▶ 1:00 Nathan Latka Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn't make it Google.
1283 $100m Exit Was $45m Cash Upfront, Using To Launch New $10/mo Website Builder with 3250 Customers
- ▶ 5:04 David Braun And I tried to Google, not Google, Google was non-existing back then, you know, like it was Yahoo.
1218 This Browser Notification Company Just Hit 400 Customers, $600k ARR
- ▶ 12:44 Vivek Khandelwal Our customer, though, is, for example, Yahoo Taiwan, right? 4 times in the scene
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company
- ▶ 4:57 Mark Zionts It's very visible, however, so the work that we do with, you know, people like the Associated Press is very visible, or the cool stuff that we do in the game Call of Duty, or that we do with Yahoo NFL, that's very outward facing, so people…
1173 Loyalty Perk SaaS Hits 2300 Locations, $2.3m in ARR
- ▶ 6:44 Sunil Saha Uh, my previous boss at Yahoo co-founded it and the CEO growing very fast. 3 times in the scene
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed
- ▶ 4:02 Scott Brandley We actually have partnerships with Google, Yahoo, and Bing, and some other companies where we syndicate their reviews to those sites.
1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation
- ▶ 9:32 Lauren Wilson When you listen to some of the public companies out there, like Google and Yahoo back in the day, you know, they, I think, would describe it as, like, X-TAC, right?
1101 Bloomreach CEO: We've turned down acquisition offers in $400m range
- ▶ 10:26 Nathan Latka I read that Mark turned down Yahoo for a billion and you know what?
1092 Why Chef Creator Raised $30m to Replace Walkie Talkies
- ▶ 0:54 Nathan Latka Before Orion, he founded Chef and is widely recognized for transforming the way companies like Facebook, Google, and Yahoo manage complex internet systems.
1090 CEO Eating Own Dog Food for $25m Revenue, $5.5m Gross Profit, $3m Net
- ▶ 14:33 Chris Ingham Brooke For example, or Outbrain or Taboola, these channels, Yahoo Gemini feeds into the system.
1063 How We Spent $7m To Spin Crunchbase Out of AOL
- ▶ 6:08 Santi Subotovsky It could be, I mean, Yahoo had Alibaba.
1017 The New Nielsen? $12m in Revenue Says, Maybe!
- ▶ 1:12 Nathan Latka He was the CEO of Bunchball, Chief of Insights at Yahoo, and President and CEO of Comscore,
- ▶ 1:52 Peter Daboll So we, when I came out of Yahoo and I looked back at the TV world at the time, this is like, it really hadn't changed a lot in over a decade.
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...
- ▶ 1:03 Nathan Latka He co-founded, or sorry, founded Associate Content in 2004, and served as its president and CEO, and sold that company to Yahoo in 2010.
- ▶ 2:33 Nathan Latka So you sold your, was it your first company in 2014 to Yahoo or was that not your first? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:00 Luke Beatty My, my background has been almost exclusively in, in, in media and in ads and, and content, uh, on the big side running, you know, brands like tech crunch to Yahoo brands like Yahoo autos and, you know, big consumer facing media brands.
933 Why Wordpress CEO Raised $300m, Replaced Himself, and New Gutenberg
- ▶ 2:21 Matt Mullenweg I had visited San Francisco, uh, kind of in between my sophomore and junior year and ended up connecting with a lot of great companies, including Google, Yahoo, CNET.
- ▶ 19:02 Matt Mullenweg Yeah, it's, uh, it's definitely factually true to say I was running the company in the very beginning, but it was also just like five people, so it's not like, it wasn't like, uh, although a CEO, it wasn't like CEO, like you might think of… 3 times in the scene
908 SaaS: Miva is Enterprise Shopify, Passes $16m in ARR Founded in 1996
- ▶ 6:19 Rick Wilson Um, and, and so find what was number two to Overture back then and find what was focused on Yahoo. 5 times in the scene
905 Went Public, $650m Market Cap, Crashed, Now $10m ARR But Only $1.8m Market Cap, Why?
- ▶ 11:13 Nathan Latka I clearly understand that, but from financial perspective, like if people were to look you up after this interview on Yahoo finance or something, they'd see your market cap is like 1.8 million.
863 AdTech: $720m Valuation, The 50+ Year Unicorn Processing $160 Billion in Spend
- ▶ 2:10 Nathan Latka You were telling me beforehand, this was where you exited to Yahoo, you were in the same space, huh? 3 times in the scene
845: SaaS: 2014 $1.4m, Now $30m ARR how BirdEye Aiming To Be Hubspot 2.0
- ▶ 12:15 Naveen Gupta Uh, yeah, and then we did a series A with Trinity Ventures, Mark Benioff, uh, CEO, uh, founder of Salesforce, uh, sort of, you know, was an investor, Jerry Yang, uh, co-founder of Yahoo.
819: AdTech: Bake Off Leads to Major Acquisition and $100m+ In Media Spend Under Management
- ▶ 4:25 Sandy Lohr You want to make sure that the tools are much easier than what you would find if you had to go into AdWords and Bing and Gemini Yahoo and Facebook.
- ▶ 17:26 Sandy Lohr I will tell you that, uh, Yahoo should have. 3 times in the scene
797: SaaS: How He Did $30m 2016 Revenue And Will Hit $40m This Year
- ▶ 16:14 Irv Shapiro So, if Verizon was to buy us in the future, in order to put analytics around Yahoo and AOL.
795: SaaS: With $117m Raised, Google Tried to Kill Him But He's Winning App Deeplinking Wars
- ▶ 18:30 Alex Austin If you think about the app ecosystem as it exists now, it's very much like Yahoo in 2 times in the scene
739: How Has She Has 3x'd Revenue to $700k MRR in Just 11 Months?
- ▶ 14:10 Nathan Latka When he sold his company to Yahoo, he was on a high, but he immediately protected his downside by selling basically put options to Goldman. 2 times in the scene
721: 543 Upvotes Got Him on HackerNews Front Page
- ▶ 10:03 Owen Sadeghpour So when we send out an email, we can tell very clearly which email providers we're not getting open rates at, and then we follow strategies to be able to deliver our message, because at the end of the day, UXX is a media company, and the…
693: How to 3x SaaS Revenue in 8 Months from $25k to $85k
- ▶ 4:27 Victor Levitin So we literally try everything from Facebook, Google, Bing, Yahoo, whatever.
655: Expensify 450k Customers Paying $9/mo for Expense Reports that Don't Suck with CEO David Barrett
- ▶ 10:33 David Barrett Um, and, uh, that raises everything from like Uber, Yahoo, um, uh, Atlassian, a bunch of public companies, um, like Evernotes, most of Silicon Valley, most of the, the,
EP 612: Sauce Labs Raises $130M (At Great Valuation!) Helping 3500 Customers Execute Concurrent and Parallel High Fidelity Testing with CEO Charles Ramsey
- ▶ 10:56 Charles Ramsey A number of larger ISVs that were more sophisticated ISV, independent software vendor, Salesforce, Yahoo, those kinds of folks, they realized that they wanted to leverage Selenium, so they built out internal grids where they had, they…
EP 561: He Did $1b in 2016 Transactions (Takes on avg 3%) at his M&A Firm Marlin and Associates with CEO Ken Marlin
- ▶ 13:25 Ken Marlin One is Microsoft buying LinkedIn, and another is Verizon buying Yahoo. 4 times in the scene
EP 532: $1m Raised, $70k MRR to Record Sales Calls and Coach with ExecVision's Steve Richard
- ▶ 17:33 Nathan Latka We have Yahoo, a billion accounts hacked.
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore
- ▶ 11:39 Nathan Latka We have Yahoo, a billion accounts hacked.
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo
- ▶ 3:06 Nathan Latka I mean, you're basically having convinced people to give up something that they have a deep, deep relationship with, which is their email provider, like Gmail, you know, Yahoo, whatever.
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already
- ▶ 1:52 Nathan Latka Now, before all this, earlier in his career, John served as head of global business operations for Yahoo Search International, joining the company through its acquisition of Overture Services.
- ▶ 2:15 Nathan Latka Merrill Lynch, Yahoo, Bizarre Advertising Solutions, DNA Games, Now Prosper Works. 3 times in the scene
EP 309: Ad Tech Company Hits $500k in 2015 Revenue with 26 Year Old At Helm
- ▶ 4:12 Nathan Latka What piss you off if in like five weeks, like you see Yahoo finance, uh, Nathan lock his private equity takes over Meta two.
He Can Get You 100,000 Quality Live Viewers Instantly, Ep 294: Eddie Vaca
- ▶ 12:06 Eddie Vaca So we work directly with, uh, the AOLs, the Yahoo's, the New York times, the Forbes, um, all those major publishers that have huge audiences on their site.
He Invested in WeWork and Now Runs $150MM Israel Focused Fund, EP 291: Michael Eisenberg
- ▶ 12:16 Michael Eisenberg Prior to that, he sold his first startup to Yahoo. 3 times in the scene
This Mom of 3 Does Clever Thing Each Morning, Has Made $76 Million with Jana Francis of Steals.com EP 244
- ▶ 18:21 Jana Francis Marissa Mayer from Yahoo.
From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209
- ▶ 15:26 Derek Capo Um, when you go to Yahoo Finance, people just look at, um, you know, income statement, balance sheet, et cetera, et cetera.
- ▶ 19:20 Derek Capo And so the goal is, um, the thing is, like, Yahoo Finance has about forty million people from the United States alone visit their website. 3 times in the scene
How YoShirt App Went from $0-$1m Fast with Ben Williamson of YoShirt Episode 23
- ▶ 16:37 Ben Williamson So Heaton did Kissmetrics, Crazy Egg, you know, self-funded, also did the VC route, very successful entrepreneur, and then Arjun Sethi, who's the vice president of mobile at Yahoo, um, he's coming out with a new app now.
Convincing Affiliates To Market For You with Sean Wycliff of DealFlicks Ep 14
- ▶ 7:34 Sean Wycliffe We'll get a lot of traffic from Google, Yahoo, and Bing just from SEO.
- ▶ 14:50 Sean Wycliffe So we run targeted ads on AdWords and Bing and Yahoo for people that search different things.
He did $900m in sales last year on something you touch every day with Allon Bloch of Vroom
- ▶ 20:09 Alon Bloch Um, you know, the fact of the matter is they're not Yahoo.
This is How Much Revenue Ontraport Does with Landon Ray
- ▶ 3:16 Landon Ray Like Yahoo was 12 bucks.
How To Acquire $1m+ Company For $2 Dollars with Eric Siu CEO of Single Grain
- ▶ 0:56 Nathan Latka Eric Su, and he's the CEO of digital marketing agency, Single Grain, which has helped companies like Salesforce, Yahoo, and Intuit scale their revenues online.