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Luke Feeney

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
157 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

Well, that depends on your perspective, Matt.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

So Terminus has been out from university.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

My brother was a researcher, a PhD researcher in computer science in Trinity, and they had an idea around building a very collaborative sort of data structure database and spun out from there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

It kind of came from this very big project called the Global History Data Bank, which is trying to record all of the social and political data sets from all of human history and then provide them in a machine readable format so people can do kind of predictive analytics on history.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

And so trying to look at the past and then get long jury trends into the future.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

So one of the big ones was the rise of political violence in the United States recently.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

So the academic lead made a prediction back in 2010 that there'd be a big uptick in political violence in the United States in 2020, 2021.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

So he kind of caught that trend pretty well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

Now, he didn't call the pandemic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

But he was able to pick that stuff out from well-structured, large data that you're able to run machine analytics on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

And that's a big problem in Europe as compared to the United States.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

So Stanford, for example, has gone very progressive on that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

So they let them spin out and then expect them to give the money back just in terms of like, you're a billion-dollar company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

Give us a few million there for an endowment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

Whereas Europeans are much more, let's get our 10%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

So we had a negotiation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

We got them down to about 4%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

That's about 2% now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

Oh, wow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

that's fine.

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