Pierce Eugenwale

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

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Pierce Ujjainwalla is the co-founder and CEO of Knak, an enterprise campaign creation platform for emails and landing pages. He previously founded the marketing operations consultancy Revenue Pulse in 2013 before launching Knak in 2015.

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2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 assertions · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 3 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 Pierce 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
Ujjainwalla: Knak Posts 100% YoY and 500% 3-Year Revenue Growth
“We have continued to grow our business at, you know, over a hundred percent year over year. We're just named one of Canada's top growing companies where we posted over 500% revenue growth over the last three years.”
Pierce Eugenwale Jan 3, 2022 ▶ 1:20 Bootstrapper Does $25m Round with Secondary Building Future of Email Marketing for Enterprise Teams

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

Insight
Ujjainwalla: Never Give Up Over 20% Equity in a Series A
“To me, if you're giving up more than 20% equity in a series A, like everyone's different, but personally I would never do that.”
Pierce Eugenwale Jan 3, 2022 ▶ 11:55 Bootstrapper Does $25m Round with Secondary Building Future of Email Marketing for Enterprise Teams
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ujjainwalla: Knak Scaled to Series A With One Quota-Carrying Rep
“Yeah, I mean, this is another beautiful part of this business is right now we only have one quota carrying rep.”
Pierce Eugenwale Jan 3, 2022 ▶ 22:55 Bootstrapper Does $25m Round with Secondary Building Future of Email Marketing for Enterprise Teams
Assertion Supported
Ujjainwalla: Knak Posts 100% YoY and 500% 3-Year Revenue Growth
“We have continued to grow our business at, you know, over a hundred percent year over year. We're just named one of Canada's top growing companies where we posted over 500% revenue growth over the last three years.”
Pierce Eugenwale Jan 3, 2022 ▶ 1:20 Bootstrapper Does $25m Round with Secondary Building Future of Email Marketing for Enterprise Teams
Assertion Supported
Ujjainwalla: Knak Bootstrapped Before $25M Insight Partners Series A
“So we are proudly bootstrapped right up until our series A. We didn't raise any money before then. And we just announced the twenty five million dollars series A with insight partners.”
Pierce Eugenwale Jan 3, 2022 ▶ 5:19 Bootstrapper Does $25m Round with Secondary Building Future of Email Marketing for Enterprise Teams
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ujjainwalla: Knak Hit $1M Revenue After Pivoting to Enterprise Sales
“We didn't get to a million on the 99 dollar a month plan. We only got there after we pivoted to sales procurement, that whole process.”
Pierce Eugenwale Jan 3, 2022 ▶ 19:10 Bootstrapper Does $25m Round with Secondary Building Future of Email Marketing for Enterprise Teams
Disclosure
Ujjainwalla Holds Over 10% of His Net Worth in Crypto
“Let's say a sizable amount, but more than 10%.”
Pierce Eugenwale Jan 3, 2022 ▶ 27:12 Bootstrapper Does $25m Round with Secondary Building Future of Email Marketing for Enterprise Teams
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ujjainwalla: Average Marketing Email Has Around 800 Lines of Code
“An average marketing email is like, 800 lines of code”
Pierce Eugenwale Jan 3, 2022 ▶ 2:21 Bootstrapper Does $25m Round with Secondary Building Future of Email Marketing for Enterprise Teams

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Bootstrapper Does $25m Round with Secondary Building Future of Email Marketing for Enterpr Jan 3, 2022 16m
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