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Nick Girard

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
267 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

The three of us have all known each other for several years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

There's a lot of mutual respect and trust.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

And one of the things that I love about our partnership is how complimentary it is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

We come from very different backgrounds.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

I'm a tech and product person.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

I was a software engineer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

I was a PM.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

I did all the things that go in it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

I've built software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

I've marketed software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

I've done product design, all of those kinds of things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

I am the CEO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

As the CEO, I own the most of the three.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

So we raised just under $4 million in July.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

And we basically set a cap for ourselves about how much of the company we wanted to give away and said, this and no further.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

What was that cap?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

Yeah, basically that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

And we kicked off, we took the wraps off of our product in May.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

We started doing, as I said, a whole bunch of events and activations with our own customers.