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Whippy Bootstrapped Growth by Scraping Displaced Zipwhip Customers After Twilio Acquisition
“Zipwhip was bought by Twilio and went out of business. So there was a feast for all the customers and like, we just started this. So I was able to pull a list from Zipwhip and then feed that to someone on Upwork to like get deeper into the data.”
Whippy Targets 70% Growth and $10M Bootstrapped ARR Within 24 Months
“I think kind of on our roadmap is probably, I would say, think about 70 to 75% this year, and maybe 50 the next, but, you know, within the next 24 months, definitely we want to be at ten million, and they are bootstrapped as well, so.”
Daneshgar's Prior Startup BloomNation Raised $20M From Andreessen and Spark
“This one we bootstrapped, but the last one we raised about twenty million from Andreessen, Spark, Ronnie Conway, a bunch of people, and it was helping local florists.”
Daneshgar: Bloom Nation's co-founders cumulatively owned under 50% upon his exit
“The three of us, when I left, I mean, cumulatively owned less than half.”
Daneshgar: Whippy AI average customer generates $5k to $10k ARR
“Average MRR for a customer probably is around 600 bucks a month. So seven, seven, anywhere between five and 10 K AR.”
Daneshgar: Whippy AI is signing enterprise contracts exceeding $100k ARR
“We are starting to have customers that are north of six figures AR.”