Chris Hall

Co-Founder & Board Member, Bynder · 2 appearances on the record.

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Chris Hall founded Bynder in 2013 and led it as CEO through rapid global growth and acquisitions before transitioning to the board. Today, he is an active angel investor and board advisor, backing startups including NOWATCH and Verify.

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16 assertions · 3 insights · 9 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 16 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 13 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Hall: Bynder Acquired Webdam as Carve-Out from Shutterstock
“So we have due to the acquisition of Webdam a shutterstock company that was a carve out from them.”
Chris Hall Sep 20, 2019 ▶ 3:01 1518 Bynder Hits $48m ARR, Another Acquisition On The Way?

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Everything Chris Hall said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Hall: 16-month CAC payback is acceptable at 100% growth
“If you're growing at this rate, if you're still sort of around a hundred percent growth rate I think a 16 month payback period isn't too bad.”
Chris Hall Feb 18, 2018 ▶ 15:53 939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP
Insight
Hall: Burning more cash yields diminishing returns on growth percentage
“The more you start burning, it's really difficult to add a couple more percent. So it starts costing more.”
Chris Hall Sep 20, 2019 ▶ 6:57 1518 Bynder Hits $48m ARR, Another Acquisition On The Way?
Insight
Hall: SaaS companies often plateau after $10M to $20M revenue
“I think SaaS companies sort of after 10, twenty million quite often it plateaus a little bit and because there's maybe not that, that huge total addressable market. So they start sort of slowing down a little bit.”
Chris Hall Sep 20, 2019 ▶ 13:44 1518 Bynder Hits $48m ARR, Another Acquisition On The Way?
Disclosure
Bynder Shifts from Seat-Based to Usage-Based Pricing Model
“We used to be seat based with a model module pricing. So basically for the enterprise will, the more modules they buy, the more they're paying on a fixed rate. And then on top of that, there's a seat based price. But it's difficult to do that. And so we're sor…”
Chris Hall Feb 18, 2018 ▶ 3:09 939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP
Disclosure
Hall: Bynder passed $20M ARR this year
“So we passed the twenty million as well this year. So we're a little over that.”
Chris Hall Feb 18, 2018 ▶ 7:14 939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP
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Hall: Bynder's CAC payback period is around 16 to 18 months
“We are higher than that. But that's trending down again. It's, there's differences. We tend to look at also just a sort of a rolling average in that as well, because there's going to be peak months that is slightly out of whack. But yeah, it's around around 16…”
Chris Hall Feb 18, 2018 ▶ 15:26 939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP
Assertion Supported
Hall: Bynder Acquired Webdam as Carve-Out from Shutterstock
“So we have due to the acquisition of Webdam a shutterstock company that was a carve out from them.”
Chris Hall Sep 20, 2019 ▶ 3:01 1518 Bynder Hits $48m ARR, Another Acquisition On The Way?
Assertion Supported
Hall: Bynder has around 1,600 combined customers
“I think we're at around, what is it? Let me think. This is combined. 1600.”
Chris Hall Sep 20, 2019 ▶ 3:56 1518 Bynder Hits $48m ARR, Another Acquisition On The Way?
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Hall: Bynder is trending healthily above the Rule of 40
“If you bring that into consideration and we're trending healthily above the rule of 40, which is basically the growth percentage plus your EBITDA.”
Chris Hall Sep 20, 2019 ▶ 4:45 1518 Bynder Hits $48m ARR, Another Acquisition On The Way?
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Hall: Webdam was Bynder's primary competitor in the US
“They were the number one, our number one competitor in the US.”
Chris Hall Sep 20, 2019 ▶ 8:40 1518 Bynder Hits $48m ARR, Another Acquisition On The Way?
Disclosure
Bynder used an SVB bridge loan to acquire Webdam and is refinancing
“We worked we worked with SVB for a bridge loan and are now basically refinancing that.”
Chris Hall Sep 20, 2019 ▶ 9:32 1518 Bynder Hits $48m ARR, Another Acquisition On The Way?
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Chris Hall: Bynder's Net Revenue Retention Is 103% to 104%
“So we're at a 103, a 104 and net revenue retention.”
Chris Hall Sep 20, 2019 ▶ 10:51 1518 Bynder Hits $48m ARR, Another Acquisition On The Way?
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Chris Hall: Bynder Maintains Around 93% Gross Revenue Retention
“Gross and net would be about 93, something like that.”
Chris Hall Sep 20, 2019 ▶ 11:00 1518 Bynder Hits $48m ARR, Another Acquisition On The Way?
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Chris Hall: Bynder's CAC Payback Period Is Under 12 Months
“We're trying to trend towards 12 and we're actually under 12 right now”
Chris Hall Sep 20, 2019 ▶ 12:41 1518 Bynder Hits $48m ARR, Another Acquisition On The Way?
Disclosure
Hall: Bynder has over 450 paying clients
“We have 450 plus clients right now.”
Chris Hall Feb 18, 2018 ▶ 6:26 939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP
Disclosure
Hall: Bynder has over 250,000 users in its system
“Over 250,000 users in the, in, in the system.”
Chris Hall Feb 18, 2018 ▶ 6:32 939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP
Disclosure
Hall: Bynder Bootstrapped Until First Funding Round with Insight
“So we were bootstrapped until then. And last year August, we did our first round of funding with Insight Venture Capital. I'm sorry, Insight Venture.”
Chris Hall Feb 18, 2018 ▶ 8:17 939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP
Disclosure
Hall: Bynder Raised €20M ($22M USD) in Series A Round
“It was twenty two million. Well, twenty million euros, so about twenty two million dollars.”
Chris Hall Feb 18, 2018 ▶ 8:49 939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP
Disclosure
Chris Hall retained majority control of Bynder after its Series A
“We're still, they're a minority shareholder, and I still control the majority of the shares.”
Chris Hall Feb 18, 2018 ▶ 10:29 939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP
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Hall: Bynder Was Cash Flow Neutral When Raising Insight Round
“We were sort of in a good position that we were cashflow neutral when we did the round.”
Chris Hall Feb 18, 2018 ▶ 13:19 939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP
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Hall: Bynder achieved 111% net dollar retention last year
“Last year was, like, our net dollar retention was, like, a 111%. Yeah, it was a 111.”
Chris Hall Feb 18, 2018 ▶ 13:55 939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP
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Hall: Bynder's gross revenue retention was 94%
“The gross retention was 94.”
Chris Hall Feb 18, 2018 ▶ 14:16 939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP
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Bynder's customer contracts start around $30k and scale upwards of $100k
“Well, we have two sets of customers. We have our sort of SMB enterprise SMB enterprise and that's around close to 30 K US dollars a year. And then there's the larger customers that, that are upwards from a hundred up to we're getting close to the million mark.”
Chris Hall Sep 20, 2019 ▶ 1:16 1518 Bynder Hits $48m ARR, Another Acquisition On The Way?
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Chris Hall: Bynder enterprise clients average about $5,500 per month
“Well, my enterprise customers is, I think it's about 5500 a month now.”
Chris Hall Feb 18, 2018 ▶ 2:06 939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

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Appearances (2)

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1518 Bynder Hits $48m ARR, Another Acquisition On The Way? Sep 20, 2019 8m
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP Feb 18, 2018 9m
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