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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Okay, cool. We'll go in the middle and just go with seven 50 there. So just to be clear, you charge on that per seat model. Most teams are about a hundred. Do you upsell feature sets or anything else?
A Yeah, we do. So we have multiple plans. Um, right now we have, uh, three plans. Our larger plan is really for people using GitHub Enterprise Server, which means you are deploying GitHub on your own infrastructure. So we do have a Mergify instance that you can run with that GitHub infrastructure on, on your cloud, for example. Uh, so that's really like our IT package. Our regular, uh, plans, uh, which are basically two Like a basic plan where you have the basic feature of Merchify, for example, a simple merge queue that's going to merge request automatically in a very simple way. If you want to go faster, have more optimization, we have a premium plan, for example, where we're going to add more and more features, um, like more advanced features for larger teams, for example.
AI assessment note: “Yeah, we do. So we have multiple plans.”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q When did you launch the company? Sorry, I, I. When did you launch the company?
A Oh, sorry. We launched the company five years ago, uh, basically. So the way we started is that we tried to, um, solve our own problem. Uh, myself and my co-founder, we both are software engineers, uh, and when we started to work, uh, on a project on GitHub, we were having this kind of issue where we're trying to automate, um, our work, basically. I mean, we are lazy, so the goal was to, you know, you know, having a program that does things for you, and there was a lot of missing features in that regard. On GitHub. So we started that way, trying to automate everything. And that's actually what we got our first customers. Uh, we both were very active in open source communities.
AI assessment note: “We launched the company five years ago, uh, basically.”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q And have you done all this bootstrapped or have you raised capital?
A We all bootstrapped since the beginning, so it took a while, I think, for us to grow, basically because we started with I mean, our own solution, which was, you know, a Python script to automate a lot of work and growing that to a solution that can accommodate, you know, businesses, large corporations, large teams. It took a few months, a few years. Finding the good product market fits, the good, even the good marketing, the good way of setting the product took us a few years. Since we didn't raise capital early, Which was a choice. We wanted to focus on, you know, building the product and not trying to go on a, on a roadshow or trying to find a visual of that. Uh, to, yeah, I mean, it took a few years to start, but at the end of the day, we're quite happy with that decision so far because, I mean, we're free and very autonomous in the way we can take our decisions.
AI assessment note: “We all bootstrapped since the beginning”
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D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.15
Q So how did you, you launched in 2018. It sounds like your revenue really started sort of the end of 20 21. How did you guys pay yourself between 2018 and 20 21, like your house rent and for food and things like that?
A Yeah, we did not actually. I mean, we worked for the first, uh, a few years. Uh, we had, uh, two jobs for a while, um, both media and I, and when we were able to switch to, to, to that full time, but it took care. I mean, the first year worked pretty hard. You have to, which is a good thing. I think to, uh, because you know that both money and time are very constrained. So you have to focus on the right thing, which as an engineer, you see a lot of stories of people trying to build products and, you know, never launching and adding more and more features because you're like, Yeah. That new feature will bring new customers and you never do anything. Whereas where you were in the first few years we were in the mindset that would be like, we have no time and no money. So like we have two hours of spare time this week. What do we do? What can we do with only two hours and basically zero dollar. So you think in a different way, which I think helped us a lot, um, over the years to grow in a way where You don't have a lot of resources, but you do a lot of things. You try to do other things with, uh, little.
AI assessment note: “we did not actually. I mean, we worked... we had, uh, two jobs”
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D 5 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.90
Q That makes sense. Um, talk to me about moving forward. Do you plan to stay bootstrapped or you plan to raise capital?
A Uh, we're planning to say bootstrap right now. I mean, we have enough cash and enough revenue to keep growing on pace, which is fine because I mean, we're still learning. I think it's a job of building a company with Medi, which is very new for us. So it's fine growing. I mean, I would say slowly, like hiring more people or building the team and taking time to develop it. It suits us. I think that pace, uh, so far we do have a lot of, so we, I mean, we'll, I think it's a good job at least for this year. I mean, it's hard to say, like a year ago, I had no clue we would be 10 people right now, so it's very hard to predict anything, which is a good thing usually when it's about growing. And in terms of, like, building new products and we have a ton of new ideas, we do talk a lot to our customers, which are software engineers like us, so it's pretty easy for us to understand their pain, their problems, and then we're trying to solve them, so trying to come with new ideas, new products. Uh, in the upcoming year to address the market problem.
AI assessment note: “we're planning to say bootstrap right now. I mean, we have enough cash”
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D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.85
Q Oh, that's awesome. So how do you, how do you get over disagreements?
A Uh, it turns out we've been working together with Native for more than 10 years, so, uh, before starting the venture, I think we both, I mean, we worked like for five or six years together on the same cutting project, all of that, so we knew each other very well, and, uh, I think we're both alike in the way we think, so it's very rare we disagree on anything. If we do, I think we try to, you know, spend a lot of time discussing, and so far we never are to, you know, to, To be in a very large disagreement where we're like, okay, we're blocked or we're stuck. It's a risk. I mean, for sure, and I knew since the beginning that it is a risk to split fifty-fifty. So it's very fair. And I know the company will not run without me and he knows that it would not run without me. So we have to work. I mean, you have to have this mindset where you have to work with each other. You can't just get rid of the other one. So it worked very well so far and it still works to this day.
AI assessment note: “If we do, I think we try to, you know, spend a lot of time discussing”
