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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?

It's really small today.

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

Like two people?

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

Two AEs and one CSF.

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

That's certainly one way to approach it.

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

I think we're also trying to push more and more the fact that employees are going to do that work for us.

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

by pushing more and more collaborative features so that actually at some point it's that company calling us saying, wow, I now have, you know, a third of my staff using Dashlane.

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

I want to get that in a more centralized fashion with more control.

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

Can I get, and I want to pay for it.

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

in, you know, one subscription rather than having 30 people expensing it.

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

No, and here I can't go into details, but let's say that in our case, we were able to negotiate really attractive terms because of the nature of our cash flow and that none of what we have agreed to is

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

is tied in a hard way to, you know, revenues or confidence or anything.

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

It's really, we were, I think our business was sufficiently attractive that we didn't have to get there.

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

No, I don't think I've done enough research.

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

detailed research myself.

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

I talked to the top firms we were engaging with.

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

One of them we retained, the other ones we didn't.

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

No, I'm not sure at this stage, but I can give you another perspective, which is that I think one thing I heard from many of these firms is that

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

When you get to later stage rounds, you're often constrained by things like minimum check size, which then force you to either accept a lot of dilution or a very high valuation that may turn against you if the markets go in the other direction.

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

In our case, we needed capital, but we didn't need an extremely high amount.

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

And I felt it was bad for the company to take more than we needed.