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Oren Zaslansky

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
299 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

And at the same time, we are just getting started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

We take this thing in the public markets and we keep going.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

You can ask.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

I'm not going to answer that question directly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

I mean, I'm going to own a small piece of something very big.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

No, that's a political answer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

It's a lot on paper.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

But look, let me say this that I think is helpful to your audience because understanding my wealth on paper, I don't know if it's helpful.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

What is helpful, this was advice I was given by my lead investor from Google Ventures who led our Series A GD, a guy named Joe Kraus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

Joe Kraus is a super successful founder, founded Excite back in the 90s.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

He was your Series A lead?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

Series A. Series A lead.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

No, half that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

That was 57 or eight.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

It was actually about six.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

No, post.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

The pre was like 41, 42, something along those lines.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

And what he taught me was, look, you're going to be taking on a lot of dilution along the way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

And I get it as a former founder, now turned investor, it's going to make you crazy, but let me convince you otherwise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post

You have a certain number of shares that