Assertion certainty 3/5 debate potential 1/5

Aircall reached nearly $100K MRR with 30% monthly growth in 2016

Olivier Pailhès · Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200 · Mar 9, 2016 · at 7:33

Olivier Pailhès, co-founder and CEO of cloud telephony platform Aircall, breaks down the company's revenue trajectory following their official product launch.

0:00 / 0:10exact quote · 10.8s
720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“And since then, since June, we've been growing about 30% a month in revenue. So we're kind of close to hundred now, something like that.”

quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →

More from Olivier Pailhès

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Aircall saw 5-15% monthly growth purely from existing customer expansion
“Not a good thing is that net churn is negative. So if you factor in the expansion we get from our customers, we actually, without doing nothing, we typically have a growth between five to 15% a month from the expansion.”
Olivier Pailhès Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 9:49 Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200
Disclosure
Pailhès refused to consider an exit below a nine-figure valuation
“So once we get there let's say now we have a, whatever, eight digit valuation. That's nice. Clearly we need to add a digit, and then maybe we'll think about an exit or something, but I think it's even then, maybe probably too early.”
Olivier Pailhès Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 14:30 Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200
Assertion Supported
Uber and Deliveroo used Aircall for customer support in 2016
“So we use by, let's say, Uber, Deliveroo, I mean, all the on-demand economy, a lot of tech companies to just start doing business, calling customers, getting calls from customers, and just making sure all calls are attended wherever the team is based.”
Olivier Pailhès Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 3:19 Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200
Disclosure
Aircall closed a $2.8M seed round in early 2016
“And then we raised a bit of money earlier last year, in like half a million dollar, and we closed last week, a larger seed round of 2.8 million dollars to just keep the growth going.”
Olivier Pailhès Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 3:59 Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200
Disclosure
Olivier Pailhès retained 30% equity in Aircall after the seed round
“Myself, 30%.”
Olivier Pailhès Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 6:20 Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Inbound channels generated 80% of Aircall's early customers
“Today about 80% of our customers come from inbound.”
Olivier Pailhès Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 8:49 Would You Sell for $6m Today? No. With Olivier Pailhes of Aircall.io EP 200
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 2,600 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.