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David Rusenko

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
265 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

And we weren't really sure how we were going to make it through, but demo day was coming up and we were sort of cautiously optimistic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

We ended up, so it was 20K from Y Combinator in January.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

We made that stretch about four months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

That was your first round, essentially, 20K.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

Effectively, that was the first round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

And what have you raised today?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

Today, we've raised just a little over $35 million in primary capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

Yeah, we've done a little bit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

And I think primary capital is the best way to look at the business, basically, is like how much it actually taken in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

And we actually so not to kind of just to skip through the story really quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

I'm a six hundred fifty six hundred and fifty K was in April of 2007.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

You know, kind of just continued scaling the business from there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

In 2014, we raised thirty five million from Sequoia and Tencent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

And today we actually have more cash in the bank than we've raised.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

You would be actually surprised.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

Um, that's not how our board meetings go at all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

Um, they, uh, I think, I think the key is having the right investors and we've been super, super lucky to have investors who are the best of the best.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

So it starts off with Y Combinator.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

Um, you then have, uh, Ron Conway, Steve Anderson, Mike Maples, um, you know, I didn't, you know, the sort of best known angels.