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Joseph Walla

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
144 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

Um, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

So after YC, we raised 2 million and then about two years later we raised another million and a half.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

So we've raised three and a half million total.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

But, you know, ironically, we have more money in the bank than our, you know, our previous round that we raised.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

I think... What was your previous round?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

The 1 million?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

Yeah, it was one and a half.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

One and a half.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

Like over three years now at this point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

I think the thing that we've always done that was a little different is we always thought of ourselves as building a real company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

And since we never raised a ton of money, I feel like we always had to be very disciplined about how we spend our money and how we focus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

And I think like what happens a lot with a lot of startup companies, they raise huge amounts of money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

They make big mistakes and then they pull back dramatically, which is really damaging for the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

So I think we've had to focus more on the customer than I say, than I think like a lot of other companies have had to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 517: $3.5M Raised, 6m Users Helping 47k Customers Sign Documents with HelloSign CEO Joseph Walla

What's interesting is that up until January, it was something that was really weird.