Dan Bladen

Co-founder & CEO, Kadence · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dan Bladen is the co-founder and CEO of Kadence, a workplace operations and hybrid scheduling platform used by enterprises such as Revolut and Boeing. He previously founded Chargifi, which pivoted during the pandemic to focus on desk management and coordinating hybrid teams.

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The record, in short

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Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Bladen: Willis Towers Watson cut real estate footprint, saving $500M annually

“So you can be a company like Willis Tau Watson that works with us, right? They've gone from 10.1 to 4.7 million square feet. So now that everybody's not in the office every single day, though, that's obviously a various difference across lots of different comp…”

Dan Bladen Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 1:28 Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for Revolut & Boeing

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What they said12 Episodes1

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Disclosure

Bladen: Kadence raised Series A at mid-teens ARR multiple

“Mid teens.”

Dan Bladen Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 13:57 Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for Revolut & Boeing

Assertion Contradicted

Bladen: Willis Towers Watson cut real estate footprint, saving $500M annually

Dan Bladen Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 1:28 Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for Revolut & Boeing

Disclosure

New VCs urged Bladen to abandon early investors; he pitched 100 instead

“We had a lot of investors saying, hey, new, new investors, we wanna come into Cadence, just ditch them, start this afresh on the side but that didn't feel like winning the right way to me, so we, I did over a hundred investors to get the round done”

Dan Bladen Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 9:02 Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for Revolut & Boeing

Disclosure

Bladen reset the company cap table after being diluted to 15 percent

“I was down to about 15% of the business at that point, and so yeah, I went to them, proposed, hey, we're gonna have to, the way to protect everybody's ownership, keep you guys all in, is to do an options increase so that's what we did.”

Dan Bladen Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 12:02 Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for Revolut & Boeing

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Bladen: Kadence achieved over 130% net dollar retention

“North of a 130%.”

Dan Bladen Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 14:48 Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for Revolut & Boeing

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Bladen: Kadence ARR run rate is around $15M

“We don't talk too publicly about it, but yeah, we're in and around that range.”

Dan Bladen Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 15:30 Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for Revolut & Boeing

Disclosure

Bladen: Kadence manages workplaces for 600 companies including Boeing and Revolut

“So WeWork with about 600, WeWork, 600 companies around the world. Think Boeing, Bombardier, Rolls-Royce, Porsche, Revolut, helping them manage their own workplaces.”

Dan Bladen Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 0:57 Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for Revolut & Boeing

Disclosure

Bladen: Kadence has no million-dollar ACV customers yet

“No million-dollar customers yet. We've got a couple that are pretty close in our pipe”

Dan Bladen Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 4:48 Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for Revolut & Boeing

Assertion Partly supported

Bladen: Chargifi raised ~$17.5M from Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise

“We raised about 17 and a half million dollars from Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.”

Dan Bladen Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 6:31 Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for Revolut & Boeing

Disclosure

Bladen: About 10,000 Teams Use Kadence

“We've got about 10,000 teams that use Cadence”

Dan Bladen Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 17:24 Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for Revolut & Boeing

Disclosure

Bladen: Kadence Flex offers access to 15,000 co-working locations globally

“We do have a product called Cadence Flex, which does allow you to get access to about 15,000 co-working locations around the world.”

Dan Bladen Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 3:54 Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for Revolut & Boeing

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Bladen: Chargifi had tens of customers and was nowhere near $1M ARR

“We had tens of customers at the time. Still wasn't anywhere near, like, a million in ARR.”

Dan Bladen Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 6:51 Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for Revolut & Boeing

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for Revolut & Boeing	Apr 15, 2026	12m

Dan Bladen

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