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Ilya Semin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
166 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

No, I think... Come on, Ilya.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

You know, for us, we actually didn't have to raise money at all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

We were profitable back then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

And we were making maybe a million dollars a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

The problem when you start selling to enterprise customers is that they don't really like to deal with small companies, you know, two guys in the garage, like they don't like it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

So they're like, well, we're going to sign this three-year contract.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

How do we know you're not going to go out of business tomorrow?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

So we started to think about raising money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

So we raised a very good round and investors included somebody like Mark Cuban, for example,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

and top VC firms like Google Ventures.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

Yeah, absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

He is very busy, obviously.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

And right now it's, you know, I think they got into the playoffs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

So I'm sure he's going to be very busy in the next few months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

Hopefully his team will be successful.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

But yeah, he's a really nice person to work with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

That's for sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number

So we always measure in terms of ARR, right?