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Ry Walker

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
539 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

That's 380 now, 390.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

So they raised 300,000 from series a 2021 to, um, 2023, 2022.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

Yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

It's because I had hired a CEO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

Bottom line was I was founder emeritus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

It was my official title and board member at that point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

I basically said I'm too young to have a title that has the word emeritus in it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

I mean, not too, too young, but just too young.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

Bottom line is I was...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

I wasn't needed there anymore.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

And I could, I could be more valuable to myself and the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

It's still, it's simply, you know, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

Yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

I mean, we're basically building essentially a digital software engineer, call it AI agent, whatever you want to call it, but a teammate that you can assign work to and it does the work and kind of behaves like a software engineer would, except that it's awake 24-7, 365, it can work in parallel, and it never says no to anything you ask it to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

it never says, can you hold on a minute?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

It gets started right away.