Silas Reddy

Co-founder & CBO, Beacon.li · 1 appearance on the record.

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Silus Reddy is a tech entrepreneur who co-founded Beacon.li, an AI orchestration platform, as well as TypeStack.ai and mobile commerce app WINDO. He also co-founded on-demand laundry service MyWash and previously held leadership roles at Shuttl and Housejoy.

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The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

All three TypeStack co-founders are second-time startup founders

“All three of us are second time entrepreneurs by the way. This is my second startup. Even my co-founder has done a startup before both of them. And this is our second startup.”

Silas Reddy Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 6:55 How this pre-revenue SaaS startup raised $1m last week at a $5m cap

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What they said12 Episodes1

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

Opinion

Reddy rejects standard advice, building multiple products from day one

“The end goal of any company is multiple products. And we want to start with multiple products.”

Silas Reddy Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 15:08 How this pre-revenue SaaS startup raised $1m last week at a $5m cap

Insight

Reddy: Find a co-founder first, then ideate together for equal conviction

“My philosophy usually is that I found a co-founder first and we ideate together. Then that idea becomes Both of yours, right? And then both of yours sold equally on that idea, right?”

Silas Reddy Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 11:44 How this pre-revenue SaaS startup raised $1m last week at a $5m cap

Disclosure

TypeStack employs an unusual ratio of five designers to four developers

“We have five designers for a four dev team.”

Silas Reddy Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 14:05 How this pre-revenue SaaS startup raised $1m last week at a $5m cap

Disclosure

Reddy aims to build a Contentful alternative for small startups

“Contentful is a CMS mostly focused for enterprises and we want to build something like Contentful for small startups.”

Silas Reddy Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 16:11 How this pre-revenue SaaS startup raised $1m last week at a $5m cap

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Reddy says TypeStack currently has just 14 paying customers

“We are in double digits, lower double digits. We have about 14 odd being.”

Silas Reddy Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 3:03 How this pre-revenue SaaS startup raised $1m last week at a $5m cap

Assertion Partly supported

Reddy's previous startup MyWash processed one million garments daily before acquisition

“We've raised about a million and a half even at that point of time. And we were one of the largest or the largest laundry business in India. At that point of time, we were crossing close to a million garments a day. And we got acquired by an Amazon funded star…”

Silas Reddy Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 9:25 How this pre-revenue SaaS startup raised $1m last week at a $5m cap

Disclosure

TypeStack charges $29 monthly or $19 per month billed annually

“We have only a single plan as a, as opposed to most SaaS companies. We have a single plan. It's at 1019 dollars per year. If they, 19 dollars per month, if they pay for a yearly subscription or 29 dollars per month.”

Silas Reddy Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 2:25 How this pre-revenue SaaS startup raised $1m last week at a $5m cap

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Reddy manually emailed 500 contacts to get 25 early waitlist signups

“We've sent, I think, close to maybe say, 500 emails, by the way. And then we got about 20, 25 odd responses back from within our first degree, second degree connections, and then that's how it started.”

Silas Reddy Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 4:40 How this pre-revenue SaaS startup raised $1m last week at a $5m cap

Assertion Supported

All three TypeStack co-founders are second-time startup founders

“All three of us are second time entrepreneurs by the way. This is my second startup. Even my co-founder has done a startup before both of them. And this is our second startup.”

Silas Reddy Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 6:55 How this pre-revenue SaaS startup raised $1m last week at a $5m cap

Disclosure

TypeStack's three co-founders split company equity almost equally

“Yes, almost. I think very slight differences, but yes, almost.”

Silas Reddy Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 7:33 How this pre-revenue SaaS startup raised $1m last week at a $5m cap

Disclosure

Reddy's side project Window generates $2,000 monthly on autopilot

“It makes about 2000 dollars per month at this point of time with very little effort from our end.”

Silas Reddy Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 8:08 How this pre-revenue SaaS startup raised $1m last week at a $5m cap

Assertion Partly supported

HouseJoy's acquisition of MyWash was predominantly a stock deal

“There was very, very small cash in world. There is some cash in world. It was not a fully stock bill, but yes, majorly a stock bill.”

Silas Reddy Nov 23, 2022 ▶ 12:11 How this pre-revenue SaaS startup raised $1m last week at a $5m cap

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
How this pre-revenue SaaS startup raised $1m last week at a $5m cap	Nov 23, 2022	10m

Silas Reddy

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