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Joseph Walla

Former Co-Founder & CEO, HelloSign · 1 appearance on the record.

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Joseph Walla co-founded HelloFax and HelloSign, scaling the e-signature platform before its acquisition by Dropbox in 2019 for $230 million. Following the acquisition, he has served as an angel investor in early-stage startups and written on startup scaling.

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6 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 5 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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What the tape says about how Joseph argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
HelloSign raised $3.5 million total across two venture rounds
“So after YC, we raised two million and then about two years later, we raised another million and a half. So we've raised three and a half million total.”
Joseph Walla Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 3:54 EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

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

Insight
Raising massive venture rounds often forces startups into damaging cutbacks
“What happens a lot with a lot of startup companies, they raise huge amounts of money, they make big mistakes, and then they pull back dramatically, which is really damaging for the company.”
Joseph Walla Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 4:28 EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla
Insight
Fully loaded Silicon Valley headcount costs $10k to $20k monthly per employee
“Generally what you do is as like a rule of thumb, you calculate, you know, 10 to 20 K per person per month, and that's like a fully loaded cost. And so that includes people's salaries you know, health insurance, office costs, snacks, you know, software everyth…”
Joseph Walla Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 8:47 EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla
Assertion Not checkable as stated
HelloSign has reached 47,000 monthly paying customers
“We've around 47,000 paying customers. So that's the customers that pay us every month.”
Joseph Walla Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 5:27 EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla
Assertion Not checkable as stated
HelloSign has 5 to 6 million registered users across its products
“In terms of our user base, we have, you know, five to six million users across our products.”
Joseph Walla Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 5:42 EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla
Assertion Not checkable as stated
HelloSign generates more than $600,000 in monthly recurring revenue
“We're definitely doing more than that.”
Joseph Walla Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 9:38 EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla
Opinion
Founders gain little upside from publicly sharing core startup metrics
“Yeah, I think that there isn't a lot of upside in sharing really core metrics publicly. I think there are a couple of metrics that we talk about sharing with the public, but I think apart from that, it doesn't make a lot of sense.”
Joseph Walla Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 14:12 EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla
Insight
Aspiring tech founders should move to Silicon Valley without waiting for jobs
“Like, don't wait for a job. Don't, you know, don't make it too complicated. Just come out, figure out a play to stay with inexpensively. Talk to a lot of people, go to a lot of conferences and then figure it out. I think that there's a way to make it too compl…”
Joseph Walla Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 17:55 EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla
Assertion Supported
HelloSign raised $3.5 million total across two venture rounds
“So after YC, we raised two million and then about two years later, we raised another million and a half. So we've raised three and a half million total.”
Joseph Walla Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 3:54 EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla
Assertion Not checkable as stated
HelloSign holds more cash than its previous $1.5 million funding round
“We have more money in the bank than our, you know, our previous round that we raised.”
Joseph Walla Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 4:01 EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla
Assertion Not checkable as stated
HelloSign employs roughly 60 full-time workers in San Francisco
“We have about 60 full time a little more, you know, employees in San Francisco.”
Joseph Walla Dec 23, 2016 ▶ 5:36 EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

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Appearances (1)

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EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Jos Dec 23, 2016 8m
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