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Nicholas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1093 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

And we're doing well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

We have a freemium product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

We're still growing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

And then I found that a company in San Francisco started before me and thought that it's such a good idea to do this smart capture of data that they're going to go and disrupt Salesforce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

And I thought, what a stupid idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

That's what my thinking is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

That's not what Kleiner Perkins thought, because they gave them 10 million, and shortly after, Accel gave them 40 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

That company is called RelateIQ, that most of you have heard of.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

Then some VP at Salesforce decide to buy Implicit, my competitor, and I'm thinking, fuck.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

They bought my competitor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

How am I going to do?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

And as I'm kind of...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

Recovering from that information, I hear that Mark Benioff bought Relata-IQ for $400 million and incorporated Relata-IQ in the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

So at the time I had raised Ian Joel money,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

1.7 million to do that company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

And all my angels call me and say, you're fucked.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

We put it in French.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

They've put 430 million to acquire your capabilities.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

You think you're going to win?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

And so that's when I called Alina to the rescue.