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Dani Golan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
203 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

Many cases in the past that I've seen, people, in order to inflate the valuation, were willing to give crazy terms to the investors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

So when you're promising multipliers, when you're promising... Danny, share my... My audience doesn't know what that means.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

So when you are getting any money into the company, let's say a million dollar, a 3x means that first of all, you need to return...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

3 million back to the investors before you do anything else.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

So, so going back to your question about evaluation, evaluation is bullshit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

If you have crazy terms and, and the terms mathematically, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

Simply by math are far more important than the actual valuation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

And the reason, so we are a late stage.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

We have raised a lot of money and we're at scale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

We're near profitability.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

2008.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

Actually, April's Fool's Day, 2008.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

Yes, yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

So I wasn't willing as the founder to wait one more day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

And I said, either we are the biggest fools around or...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

We're on to add to something.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

Later, by the way, later, we found that Apple was also founded on April Fool's Day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
686: $225M Raised by Data Focused Ex-Isralei Fighter Pilot, is Kaminario Next IPO? With CEO Dani Golan

Not a bad comp.