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Josh Martel

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

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He is the co-founder and CEO of Chaser, a Slack-native task and project management platform designed to automate action items and team follow-ups. Prior to launching Chaser, he was the first employee at Thriver Technologies, where he led product, sales, growth, and business intelligence functions.

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0 supported 0 partly supported 2 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 5 assertions · 1 opinion · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 4 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.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Josh argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Chaser is a project management tool that requires only one user
“Chaser is the only project management software that only one user needs to use”
Josh Martel Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 3:05 How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

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

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chaser can beat Trello's Slack app because it lacks stickiness
“What I think, though, is we can beat Trello in the app store, and that's because Yeah, I've used the Trello app. It isn't sticky. It doesn't, it's just pinging a channel whenever somebody you know, moves a card across the Trello board. It only really stayed on…”
Josh Martel Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 15:52 How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023
Assertion Contradicted
Chaser is a project management tool that requires only one user
“Chaser is the only project management software that only one user needs to use”
Josh Martel Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 3:05 How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023
Disclosure
Chaser raised a $100K VC round at a $7M valuation cap
“We did that on a seven mil valuation cap.”
Josh Martel Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 8:59 How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Thriver's revenue dropped 97% when the COVID-19 pandemic hit
“The issue was that our revenue tanked 97% when COVID hit.”
Josh Martel Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 2:03 How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023
Opinion
Project management software is broken because teams resist workflow changes
“Projects management software is widely broken right now. And that's because most teams don't care enough to adapt their workflow around it.”
Josh Martel Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 2:34 How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chaser's Slack MVP maintained 43% user retention at week 16
“And what I can tell you is that for 16 weeks of using our MVP, we still have 43% retention.”
Josh Martel Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 4:44 How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
One hundred companies have started using Chaser's free Slack MVP
“We've had a hundred companies start using us.”
Josh Martel Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 4:11 How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023
Assertion Contradicted
Chaser lets users delegate tasks to anyone, regardless of their platform
“Where Chaser comes in is it can send and delegate tasks to anybody, whether or not They're engaged with any platform.”
Josh Martel Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 7:25 How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023
Disclosure
Chaser raised $120K from a VC and two angel investors
“So we raised a 120,000 dollars so far. A hundred from a VC and 20 from a pair of angels.”
Josh Martel Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 8:32 How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023
Disclosure
Chaser operates with two contract developers and two unpaid co-founders
“Four. Myself, my co-founder who are not paid we're roughing it out, and I just moved to San Francisco, so that is tough to be living here without a salary. And then we have two developers. Yeah. They're on contracts, but they're working full-time hours.”
Josh Martel Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 9:54 How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023
Disclosure
Josh Martel and his co-founder split Chaser's equity 50-50
“We discussed it, but we both were very happy with fifty-fifty.”
Josh Martel Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 10:23 How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023 Oct 16, 2023 9m
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