Dataclay sold less than five percent equity to an outside investor
Ari Stavchansky · A SaaS founder makes $1m off those NFL highlight clips you see on twitter · Dec 26, 2022 · at 12:44
Ari Stavchansky, founder of video automation platform Dataclay, discusses the company's bootstrapping history and capital structure with Nathan Latka.
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“There has been, there have been investors that have approached us. And we did give away a very small fractional amount of equity just because you know, this investor was really Interested in the software and to see where it was going to go. And so yeah, but under five percent.”
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