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Taro Fukuyama

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
176 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

No comment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

We're a little sensitive right now for the funding, so if you could not touch about the revenue, that would be helpful.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

Is this recorded right now, or how is it working right now?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

I don't think it's a negative.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

I think it's much better and easier for us to control the story.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

You know, the other ways like numbers going walking down the street and they can read in different way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

There are a lot of context that I have inside.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

So that would be helpful.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

We have raised around 24 million so far.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

No, we have great investors supporting our future and then I'm excited to work with them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

I think the employee engagement market is really big.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

And I think the fact that we can invest those capital into the growth and then we can own the market as soon as possible, I think is a super important advantage that we have to have as a company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

Uh, mainly 90% of company who don't end up working with us typically don't end up doing anything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

So biggest competitor, it's not direct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

But especially for the recognition side, the large players are companies like Achievers, Global Force, Aussie Tunners.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

Those are like hundreds of millions of revenue companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

Usually those are the companies we work with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

We started this company in 2012 when we were in Y Combinator.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

Yeah.