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Pedro Alves

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
225 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

And that's going to be the roughly given that range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

So we are starting to talk to some customers about some beta products that we have that we haven't really advertised on the website.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

Things to do with unsupervised learning and a couple of other technologies that are really new out there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

And so those are things that would be charged separately.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

They're separate products within the platform, if you will.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

Close to three years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

It was in the beginning of 2017, so getting close to three years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

So the MVP we got to very quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

I had been thinking about this for a good five years before starting the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

So when we hit the ground running officially, I had done a lot of the legwork, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

So we started officially in the beginning of February.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

And we had a big demo day with an accelerator at the very, I think it was the last day of March or the very beginning of April.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

So it was like two and a half months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

And we had, I mean, granted what it looked like back then and what it looks like today, there's a big difference, you know, three people working on it for two and a half months versus today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

But yes, technically we had that initial demo that we could do with a fully functional piece of software within three months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

So I'm not measuring to revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

I'm measuring to the, like you said, the MVP of the software, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

Before the first dollar revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

So that first dollar revenue was still in the first year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
AI Company Ople $15m Raised, Just $500k Revenue, Overvalued?

So I'm going to say...