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Mobilewalla monitored swing state polling locations in real-time for campaign teams
“What we did for this particular party, who spent way less on, feet on the street than the other party, we were monitoring every polling booth, every polling location in a certain number of states, And we were telling the ground team who showed up to vote and w…”
Chernis: Most Lately staff went unpaid for two years during cash crunch
“And so, but that also means most of my staff didn't get paid for the last two years.”
Latka deceptively lists unconfirmed speakers to sell conference tickets
“What it said, if you go look at that particular part, it said confirmed and invited. They have been either confirmed or invited. And what I will tell you, as sales come in and I have more money to play with, the likelihood that I actually confirm all of them i…”
Kahlow: 1Mind is building AI to replace all GTM roles
“We are building what we call go-to-market superhuman. So we are replacing all roles across go-to-market.”
Oates Pays Event Speakers $250 For On-Stage Product Mentions
“Now I would literally text them. I see you're speaking speaking to at this event. Sweet. Trying to get some people to check out Ovation. If it comes up, we'd love you to mention us. I'll send you 250 bucks if you do. I would pay people to mention me on stage. …”
Ong: Investment contract binds founder's future ventures to current equity split
“In our agreement, I made it this way, like, we made it this way, and we agree on it this way, which we agree is fair, is that if, let's say, she leaves this business and she starts another business, then what's gonna happen is that she, like, she went to split…”
Mobilewalla tracked church attendance to segment evangelical voters in swing states
“So, so the definition we were given was, take a swing state like Florida, right? And there are like, whatever, 1400 evangelical churches. So to be an evangelical Christian, you need to have been observed in an evangelical church at least once a week for the pa…”
Zuchlinski avoids scaling profitable marketing channels to prevent hiring staff
“When we find a profitable channel, I don't add more money into there. Just cause I said, I don't actually like hiring people that keeps me happy, keeps our team small, reduces communication overhead and keeps our customers happy too”
Ghadimi: VIP Motoring guarantees massive resale profits on exotic cars within a year
“We allow people to come in and purchase, let's say, a car that we're buying for half a million. We'll let them purchase it for 700,000, and we'll guarantee that we'll resell it somewhere around 1.2 million in the next year or so.”
Ghadimi: We paid a €70,000 bribe to divert a Ferrari 488 allocation
“One of the things we did is the car was heading to Germany. So we have to bribe someone upwards of 70,000 euros. Just to allow the car to change routes and ultimately tell the client that they weren't going to get a car because of the mistake in exchange getti…”
Latka avoids romantic relationships because they give others leverage over him
“This is one of the reasons, by the way, I don't have a relationship. It becomes very, if I have a relationship, it becomes obviously clear what I care about, whoever I'm with, right? And if people then know how to cater to whoever I'm with, it's actually a wea…”
Rampton aims to monopolize payments and bankrupt rivals PayPal and Venmo
“You know, ultimately do want to monopolize it and put some of those guys out of business, obviously, or have them acquire us mainly put them out of business. We don't, our goal is not to be acquired.”
Urban plans to raise venture capital without a pitch deck
“I'm going to raise money without a deck.
I don't give a shit about a deck.
It's like, here, you're, this is what we're doing right now.
You're going to want to work with us.
This is what we mean.
this is what we want to do going forward.
And people are …”
Turner: Swipeby Acquires Its Customers Exclusively Through Door-to-Door Sales
“And so we are exclusively selling door-to-door.”
Turner: Swipeby Targets a Series A Valuation Between $60M and $75M
“So what we're actually trying to land on where we are today is in the sixties to 75, right?”
Kahlow: 1Mind prices AI agents at six figures per role
“It's the cost of a human, so it's Six figures.”
Kahlow: 1Mind replaced its sole human sales engineer with AI
“We have one sales engineer right now. And I literally last week told him, you know, your job is gone and you now need to maintain the brain of your superhuman.”
Kahlow: 1Mind uses caching to minimize generative AI compute costs
“A hundred percent. We're Yes. Yes. We have found a way in the slot of caching. Like, there's a lot of multiple things that we can do to keep this down.”
Superwall Customers Are Passing App Review Using Stripe Billing
“Like, so we have, we now have customers that are using super wall to build with Stripe. And they're just getting through app review, like, it's fine.”
Rush: Intentionally caps micro-SaaS tools at $100k MRR to avoid enterprise bloat
“Basically the way, I do is I start, I get to fifth decade, then I pose, then I come back and I get a hundred K then I pose and go to other tools. And I basically don't want to go farther than a hundred K because then it becomes a product that will require me t…”
Lemlist hired early videographers and delayed hiring salespeople until $1M ARR
“We had a team of up to 10 people in the video team out of a hundred, out of 80 to a hundred people and that was a significant investment compared to most of the SaaS companies that you see. Even at the beginning of the company, I think it was the second or the…”
Robinson paid himself $4 million from Retention.com last year
“I paid myself four million dollars last year”
Giloff: ShipIt's existing investors refused $600k bridge and advised bankruptcy
“I went to my investors and I was like, Hey guys, we have a problem. We don't have a term sheet anymore. But I made out a plan. I need 600 K to do all the changes I need. I need to close Mexico operation. I need to fire people, pay their money. So I need that a…”
Maruthavanan: Upekkha Threatened to Expel SocialPilot Unless They Raised Prices
“Prasanna, my co-founder, threatened to throw them out of the cohort if they don't increase the pricing. They went ahead and did that, and then they saw that the revenue did not dip, there was a little bit of a churn, and then they become encouraged by that, so…”
Allouche tanked his credit score to 250 to fund Metadata
“I maxed out all of my credit cards. American Express would call me daily. I would pick up my phone and tell them I'm not paying you anything. When I have money, I'm paying you all of it. Right now, you can keep calling me. Not paying you any of that. And third…”
Manonia KH considers granting parents 60% equity in BoltCode
“Yes, I am looking at giving them around 60% of equity.”
Dubin: Viewst Turned Down a $20M Cash-and-Equity Acquisition Offer
“It's not, it wasn't like 12 twenty million, like cash upfront. So it was partially cash and partially like equity in the new company, like actually unicorn.”
Nagpal plans to hire 50 commission-only sales reps per month
“But the point is we are, we'll be hiring approximately 50 sales representatives per month like that. I'll be hiring in bulk.”
Zomentum sets quotas for its Indian sales reps at 10x their compensation
“Oh, 10 times what their income is.”
Latka: Founders leak their metrics on my podcast to induce acquisition bids
“I full disclosure have, I won't name them, but I have founders who call on my show specifically because they want a reason to share their numbers live where it looks like I'm beating it out of them, but really they want to share it because they want the market…”
OnStrategy refuses to sell software without mandatory bundled professional services
“There's no question. We don't ask you if you want services. We don't ask you if you want an add-on. If you want to buy from us, it's software and services. That's how we sell it.”
PPC Ad Lab pays affiliate partners 100% of first-month customer revenue
“Right now, there's a launch about to go down in about seven days from now. And check this out. We're paying 100% of month one revenue as a commission.”
Prados: Review Wave is strictly 'remote never' and rejects remote work
“We are not remote first. We're remote. We're remote never. I hate that business model.”
Inflectra pays zero sales commissions, keeping all salespeople on salary
“But we have actually, and one thing, we have no sales commission. So everyone, even salespeople are all on salary, and everything is, is a team bonus that the company makes as a whole.”
Campbell: ProfitWell exec delayed signing employment agreement for a year
“Like we did like FACU didn't sign his employment agreement for like a year because we were like worried that we were going to have to like take the source code.”
Cal.com pays identical engineering salaries globally regardless of an employee location
“In, in engineering, which is like nine percent of our team, we have three pay bands and that's it. We got, I see one, two, and three, like junior, mid and senior. It doesn't matter where the hell you are in the world. It doesn't matter what, like you don't, Ne…”
Milich: Skiff Will Refuse DOJ Backdoor Demands for User Data
“I think definitely not, and there's no legal precedent that we would do that.”
Passing on ZoomInfo at $240M was right because the company wasn't ready
“A year earlier, I had an opportunity to buy Zoom Info for two hundred and forty million dollars and I passed. And that might feel like a bad decision. Like, oh, that was dumb. He had to pay eight hundred million dollars one year later. It wasn't a bad decision…”
SmartSuite operates with zero employees and two co-founders using agency contractors
“We have no employees in place. I have two co-founders We hired teams of people inside of companies. I think we have five different main companies that we work with from a development perspective.”
Isilay: Cognism net retention is around 85% and moving toward 90%
“So our net retention our net retention is around 85% right now, and it's moving towards it, 90%.”
Arora: Intervue is looking to raise north of $6M
“We are looking to raise around north of six million in the coming days.”
Bean: Divvy offers free software by monetizing card interchange fees
“We make money just like the banks would. And then we give you the software that Expensify and others are giving you. So we really combine it into one platform.”
Referizer operates 100% commission-only sales with zero base pay
“Whole sales system is performance based, hundred percent, no base pay, right? No overhead. The half of the setup fee, that's 500 bucks, goes to appointment setter that sets up the demo. Plus, we give them 10% of residual, right? Then second half goes to the cl…”
Smith: Collabogence is not paying salaries to its engineers
“No, at this point in time, we're not paying them.”
Azora: Unicorn Platform intentionally rejects VC growth to focus on product
“We don't have plans. We don't want to build another unicorn for the funds. We're just focusing on what we have today, our vision of our product, and grinding it every day, step by step. We have a huge backlog, and that's what we do. We are not building a multi…”