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Nathan Latka

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
223769 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

I guess, can you flesh out the team for me?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

How many folks are full-time today?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

40 people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

Wow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

How many engineers?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

Are you coding still?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

That's great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

In terms of a Series A, again, you are an independently wealthy, but you did want the market to price the thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

Was that really why you did it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

I mean, because obviously you wouldn't take the 15 or whatever it was, dilution, percent dilution, if you didn't need to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

And, uh, you did that with like a traditional bank or something.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

You know, how long did that take?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

Three, two, three, how long did it take?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

Before you came out of the valley, right, the trough, right, after the pivot layer, if you had raised an equity round while you were in the valley, how deluded do you think that probably would have been if you had to guess?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

How much of the company do you think you would have given up?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

That's awesome.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

Well, listen, we're certainly rooting for you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

I guess before we wrap up, uh, again, people can check Larry out at customers.ai.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

Larry, how many customers are paying for the software today?