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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

So I think it's a huge, um,

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

Basically, the more developers, the more people you have, the more powerful this tool gets.

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

Yeah, so we pivoted from a previous thing.

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

I won't talk about the old business too much.

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

It was a managed postgres.

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

Very technical and boring.

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

Okay.

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

We launched this company in 2022, November 2022, which is essentially the same time that ChatGPT came out.

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

So, you know, we were building a Postgres startup at the same time that AI was coming of age.

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

And it was earlier this year, just in April, that we started pivoting towards this and made the full jump over back in May.

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

So literally just a couple of months ago.

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

Okay.

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

We've had 200 companies create pull requests with, well, I don't know if they're companies, 200 organizations create pull requests with this.

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

We've had maybe 30 customers paying us something.

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

It's all, again, pay as you go.

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

But I would say we definitely have somatics, and that's good.

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

Yeah, well, I mean, zero, you know, to get to a hundred million in revenue, you have to pass through 10, you know, you have to pass through a hundred, you have to pass through a thousand.

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

So this is what early stage is all about, you know, building something that people want.

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

You're doing it quickly, you know, in two months.

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

to get to build something that people will pay for is, is a hard thing.