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Emmanuel Chalit

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
156 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

So that's one of the ways we drive that engagement is to tell them, now you can go get these passwords because they sit in your browser.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

And actually, it's a good opportunity to remove them

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

from that browser where they're not secure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

Think about a quarter million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

Today, think about 50-50.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

Well, more and more because the challenge we have to address is very simple.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

Today, the vast majority of individuals know about the problem, the pain points related to digital identity, but they don't even know that there are solutions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

Our biggest competition is do nothing or it's an Excel file or an Evernote note, which is a terrible idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

most people don't know that there is a solution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

That is why, as the leader in this market, we have to invest more and more aggressively to educate consumers, to educate businesses about the fact that there is actually a solution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

Today, you can think of us as spending, we are below a million a month, but that number is quickly growing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

It's closer to a million than 500K.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

So we have raised two types of capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

We have raised equity in the past.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

We did three rounds of equity for a total of 54 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

But we have a business now where essentially

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

the use of capital is largely user acquisition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

And because of the incredible retention characteristics we have, because of the high predictability of our cash flows, we are actually able to fund the business with debt.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

which is much more attractive from a cost of capital standpoint, from a dilution standpoint.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?

So I won't go into the details, but today we have the ability to raise significant amounts of debt to accelerate our growth because that capital mostly goes to our user acquisition and we have very short payback times.