Gili Raanan

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558 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 28 Mar

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: The Venture Model is Broken | You Need to be Greedy and Selfish to Win Early Stage Investing | Why Margins Do Not Matter for Early-Stage Startups | The Growth Rate that is Required in a World of AI with Gili Raanan, Founder @ Cyberstarts · 28 Mar 2026 podcast

So I had access to the numbers.

And, you know, this is insane pace what we demonstrated.

I'll give you the other.

So Sierra, they had an amazing start.

You know, they sold probably half a million dollars in the first quarter and then a million dollar and they sold zero for two quarters, literally zero.

It was, okay, what's going on?

As an investor, you look at yourself and say, okay, I really fucked up.

And then the team, and I really attribute that to the founders, they really analyzed what's going on.

They made some modifications.

And the next 12 months, they sold $12 million of new business.

So they went 2 to 12.

And then it continued to grow extremely fast.

Because when you see a company that grows that fast, it's part of the DNA.

There's something about the company that makes them grow fast.

It may be amazing execution on go-to-market.

It may be weakness on the competitive side.

It may be perfect timing with market.

It's probably product-market fit.

There's reasons that you can analyze, but that thing that makes them move so fast, typically most of the cases would not simply fade away.

I don't think you are wrong.

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