Siavash Mahmudian

Co-founder, Bettermode · 1 appearance on the record.

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Siavash Mahmoudian is a software developer and entrepreneur who co-founded Tribe (rebranded to Bettermode), a customer community platform backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and CRV. Prior to Bettermode, he developed software products and co-founded Breezio, an online community and collaboration platform.

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

Opinion

Mahmudian: Circle Targets Creators While Tribe Targets Businesses

“I think like circle mostly targets the creators in our case, like we mostly target businesses.”

Siavash Mahmudian Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 1:21 Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Communities

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Mahmudian: Tribe raised seed capital at a $43M post-money valuation

“So yeah, it was on a forty three million dollar post money valuation.”

Siavash Mahmudian Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 10:56 Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Communities

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Tribe Received Eight Term Sheets and Closed Seed Round in Two Weeks

“To be honest, like we wanted to raise like very less than that, but actually we had like eight term sheets. We closed the whole round in two weeks. So it was a very nice story. I think I had like around a 130 meetings in that two weeks basically.”

Siavash Mahmudian Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 15:51 Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Communities

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Mahmudian: Tribe's net dollar retention is currently below 100%

“So our net dollar retention right now is lower than a hundred percent, which is a problem that we are fixing.”

Siavash Mahmudian Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 21:40 Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Communities

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Mahmudian: Tribe Focuses on Embedding Communities Directly Within Existing Products

“So we usually like target people that already have a product that is out there and they want the community to be in the user's journey of their audience inside the product.”

Siavash Mahmudian Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 1:56 Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Communities

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Mahmudian: Tribe has five or six deals with customer IBM

“Actually IBM is a customer. So we have like five or six deals with them.”

Siavash Mahmudian Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 5:08 Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Communities

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Mahmudian: Tribe's highest customer ACV is over $100K

“It's around like more than a hundred grand is the highest ACV.”

Siavash Mahmudian Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 5:44 Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Communities

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Mahmudian: Tribe raised a $7.5M seed round led by Bessemer and CRV

“Then our seed round was led by Bessemer and CRV. It was a 7.5 million dollar seed round basically.”

Siavash Mahmudian Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 10:16 Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Communities

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Mahmudian: Tribe has 100,000 communities and adds 200 to 300 daily

“Like we have around like a 100,000 communities built on tribe so far. And every single day we have around like 203 hundred new communities being built on tribe.”

Siavash Mahmudian Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 13:28 Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Communities

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Mahmudian: Tribe has around 1,000 paying customers

“So we have around like a thousand paying customers right now as we speak.”

Siavash Mahmudian Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 13:40 Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Communities

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Mahmudian: Tribe was at $700K to $800K ARR a year ago

“A year ago, I think we're at like, 800 K, like I think like 700 K, 800 K in ARR.”

Siavash Mahmudian Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 14:34 Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Communities

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Mahmudian: Tribe generates 60% to 70% of its reach organically

“We are an inbound company in general. We don't have any outbound and people, and believe it or not, like say 60, 70% of our reach is organic. We don't pay anything for it.”

Siavash Mahmudian Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 16:59 Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Communities

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Mahmudian: Tribe's enterprise customers have near-zero churn rates

“It's for larger organizations, for instance, like ASUS, like IBM, Pipedrive, ConvertKit, and all those sorts of like customers that we have, like Tim Hortons. So for, These customers, the churn rate is very minimal. Almost, I cannot say zero percent, but it's …”

Siavash Mahmudian Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 19:28 Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Communities

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Mahmudian: Tribe's overall gross revenue churn is around 30%

“If you get it, like for everyone, it's like around like, 30%, something like that.”

Siavash Mahmudian Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 19:57 Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Communities

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Siavash Mahmudian Built an Iranian Dating App With 400,000 Users

“I built a dating app back in my home country. It was used by 400,000 people.”

Siavash Mahmudian Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 6:12 Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Communities

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Comm	Nov 17, 2021	17m

Siavash Mahmudian

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