Chris Hall
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312 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2018
last heard May 2025
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Top Founders · 939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP · 18 Feb 2018
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It was our first round, and it was a very exciting, ambitious step to do a round with those guys.
It was 22 million.
Well, 20 million euros, so about $22 million.
Yep.
Well, that's also a good question because we try to sort of prolong that as long as possible.
And I think, um, anyone bootstrapping recognizes that sort of number one, two and three problem in your life is cash.
Uh, it's very cashflow driven.
Um, and at a certain point that is just the, it's, it's too much of a barrier, um, and, and it's, and it's slowing down the potential growth.
Um, and you know, we were, you know, ready to go for it and, and, and really start to scale.
Uh, but it's, you know, it's a big, it's a big change going from cashflow, cashflow, cashflow as a problem.
If you remove that sort of that problem, I remember thinking, Oh, imagine when, when we don't have to worry about money anymore.
Um,
But then you get 99 new problems instead of that.
And then you sort of think back.
Money ain't one, but I wish it was because at least that's a simple metric, right?
No, it's all growth.
Well, let me put it this way.
We're still, they're a minority shareholder and I still control the majority of the shares.
Well, we have a couple of other shareholders that were, you know, the first employees to join.
So, yeah, there's still some other shareholders in the management team.
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