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Marcelo Puglisi

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
129 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

Let's go, Nathan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

We've launched January 2017.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

Me and three other co-founders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

And since day one, I was the CEO of the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

Oh, I started other businesses in 2000 with other guys.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

So my journey started as an entrepreneur, started here in Brazil and meet

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

June 2000, with a company called Direct Talk.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

And we've stayed for a while in the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

And actually, High Platform, Direct Talk originated High Platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

It's a different cap table.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

January 2017.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

Okay, got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

Yeah, but with a different cap table and some different products, but me as one of the founders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

We actually didn't shut down.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

We merged with another startup.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

It was a Brazilian startup for...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

social media customer care and we started talking with their investors and they wanted to invest in some chatbot products here in Brazil and Directalk used to have this product and these guys they just asked me could you speak with the other founders and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

see if you can work together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

Can you imagine an angle where you put all these products together?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$13m ARR company gets $7m raise done on $40m Valuation for Customer Success SaaS

And the conversations went pretty well.

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