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Nadim Hossain

Angel Investor and Advisor · 1 appearance on the record.

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Nadim Hossain is the co-founder and former CEO of BrightFunnel, a B2B marketing analytics platform. He subsequently served as Vice President of Product Management at Databricks, following earlier marketing leadership roles at Uber, PowerReviews, and Salesforce.

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1 assertion · 6 insights · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. 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 Nadim 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
Hossain: Founder-CEO transitions typically occur 6-7 years in before an IPO
“You look at Crunchbase you know, you see typically the transitions happen six to seven years in at least the ones you hear about the ones that, you know, the company goes out of business, obviously, you transition into oblivion but typically it is a little bit…”
Nadim Hossain Nov 27, 2017 ▶ 4:06 856 SaaS: How Brightfunnel CEO Replaced Himself After Hitting $2m+ ARR, 45 Employees

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

Insight
Hossain: Board members who refuse to consider exits should be fired
“Any board member that tells you they won't consider an exit is should be fired, right? Your job as a board member is to consider the value of the company. I'm representing every shareholder at this point, not just myself or the investors and employees. So you …”
Nadim Hossain Nov 27, 2017 ▶ 19:09 856 SaaS: How Brightfunnel CEO Replaced Himself After Hitting $2m+ ARR, 45 Employees
Insight
Hossain: Founders who scale all the way are a rare breed
“The ones that go all the way and succeed, you know, you can pick your favorites, maybe Mark Benioff, very, very rare breed. It takes certainly a lot of skill and sort of a unique talent. So I think it is, you do need some self-awareness to know when someone el…”
Nadim Hossain Nov 27, 2017 ▶ 5:20 856 SaaS: How Brightfunnel CEO Replaced Himself After Hitting $2m+ ARR, 45 Employees
Insight
Hossain: Startup founders should assume their company will be worth nothing
“Now, as a startup, as a founder, you should think of it as it's probably going to be worth nothing, right? That's the way to think about really any founder. You shouldn't be thinking about the outcome.”
Nadim Hossain Nov 27, 2017 ▶ 8:40 856 SaaS: How Brightfunnel CEO Replaced Himself After Hitting $2m+ ARR, 45 Employees
Insight
Hossain: Early venture rounds cause ~30% dilution via investors and option pools
“In every round, you know, think of it as a 30% dilution event because your investor is you know, they want to own a certain percent of their company. That's usually about, you know, again, people give ranges of the series A level about they want to own 20% aft…”
Nadim Hossain Nov 27, 2017 ▶ 11:33 856 SaaS: How Brightfunnel CEO Replaced Himself After Hitting $2m+ ARR, 45 Employees
Insight
Hossain: SaaS companies under $10M ARR typically see 12-to-18-month payback
“You want to be able to acquire in SAS a customer that's going to pay back over 12 months, ideally. At this stage, a little bit earlier you know you know, we're under ten million, I mentioned ARR, so typically, you know, if you're 12 months, you're doing really…”
Nadim Hossain Nov 27, 2017 ▶ 14:42 856 SaaS: How Brightfunnel CEO Replaced Himself After Hitting $2m+ ARR, 45 Employees
Insight
Hossain: Tech founders should use domain expertise to trade public equities
“If you're building an expertise in a domain, in my case, it's SAS and sort of generally enterprise software, you probably know more about it than the vast majority of people. So while you shouldn't randomly be day trading, you probably have good instincts if y…”
Nadim Hossain Nov 27, 2017 ▶ 21:50 856 SaaS: How Brightfunnel CEO Replaced Himself After Hitting $2m+ ARR, 45 Employees
Assertion Contradicted
Hossain: Founder-CEO transitions typically occur 6-7 years in before an IPO
“You look at Crunchbase you know, you see typically the transitions happen six to seven years in at least the ones you hear about the ones that, you know, the company goes out of business, obviously, you transition into oblivion but typically it is a little bit…”
Nadim Hossain Nov 27, 2017 ▶ 4:06 856 SaaS: How Brightfunnel CEO Replaced Himself After Hitting $2m+ ARR, 45 Employees
Disclosure
Hossain: BrightFunnel is about to raise Series B funding
“We're, you know, about to raise our Series B.”
Nadim Hossain Nov 27, 2017 ▶ 8:37 856 SaaS: How Brightfunnel CEO Replaced Himself After Hitting $2m+ ARR, 45 Employees
Disclosure
Hossain: BrightFunnel ARR is in the single-digit millions
“I would think of it in, yeah, I would think of it in terms of we're single legit millions. So it's a pretty broad you know, range, but that gives you a good sense. That's right. Single legit millions, ARR.”
Nadim Hossain Nov 27, 2017 ▶ 9:59 856 SaaS: How Brightfunnel CEO Replaced Himself After Hitting $2m+ ARR, 45 Employees
Disclosure
BrightFunnel raised $650k angel, $2.25M seed, and $6M Series A
“Within a classic seed round or angel round, we called it of 650 K. Then we did you know, classic real seed round of two and a quarter million dollars. Then we did a series A of six million dollars.”
Nadim Hossain Nov 27, 2017 ▶ 10:55 856 SaaS: How Brightfunnel CEO Replaced Himself After Hitting $2m+ ARR, 45 Employees
Disclosure
Hossain: BrightFunnel has 45 employees and will cross 50 by year-end
“We're about 45 people. So that gives you good sense. We're just gonna cross 50 by the end of the year.”
Nadim Hossain Nov 27, 2017 ▶ 4:54 856 SaaS: How Brightfunnel CEO Replaced Himself After Hitting $2m+ ARR, 45 Employees

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Appearances (1)

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856 SaaS: How Brightfunnel CEO Replaced Himself After Hitting $2m+ ARR, 45 Employees Nov 27, 2017 13m
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