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Chris Bakke
Co-Founder @ Laskie.com
3x exits to Indeed, Zillow, and Knotel
Email: chrisjbakke at gmail dot com
- gatsby parentReally great idea - excited to try this out!
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- I just did a short thread on how we went from $0 -> $2m ARR with founder-led B2B sales.
https://twitter.com/ChrisJBakke/status/1309197276061945857
There was a lot of interest, so I wrote a longer-form version that I'm sending out next week, and I'm happy to send to you if you email me.
The biggest things are: learn by doing + learn via mentorship.
Feel free to email any specific questions and I'll do my best to help answer.
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- Thanks for the context.
"Management was basically incredibly incompetent, for a long time, and were so unfair to employees at the company that they felt this was the only option"
Why not just quit and get a new role? I don't really understand how being unionized under terrible management is desirable.
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- Almost every successful Google product over the last 15 years has been the result of acquiring an already-built product and marketing + distributing it well: Youtube, Nest, Waze, Doubleclick, Android.
Products that are organically created within Google (even Google Hire, created via acquihire) have a pretty awful track record.
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- We were fortunate to have Geoff as one of our YC group partners in S2015 and he asked tough questions and kept us focused more so than almost any other early investor we had. Looking back, Geoff really helped us maximize our full potential - all the way from day 1 through selling our company.
Congrats, Geoff!
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- No, they have a massive sales team, they just call them "customer advocates" or "Ecosystem Account Manager" or "Product Advocate"
https://www.atlassian.com/company/careers/all-jobs?team=Mark...
- Perfectly said.
In the 80s and 90s, the "center" of SV was Mountain View and surrounding cities, with the VCs mostly in Menlo/Palo Also.
In the last 10 years, as companies have decided to increasingly be based out of SF, the radius of SV is expanding, and a lot of that expansion is to the north + east: Richmond, Concord, Walnut Creek, San Rafael, Mill Valley - making SF the center of the action.
- 614 points
- I signed up for HN eight years ago yesterday.
Back then, I was working at a mind-numbing job in private equity and hating every minute of it.
HN encouraged me to move to SF, learn new skills, join a startup (where I met my wife), which led to an acquisition, which led to joining a YC company as an employee, and eventually starting my own company.
For a bunch of strangers, this community was, and still is life-changing.
- This seems bitter and certainly exaggerated. For one, the three companies that you listed have almost 1m employees and clearly not all of them are naive or scumbags.
Serious question: what did you decide to do instead of working at a startup or a big tech co, and why do you feel that your life now is better than it would have been otherwise?
I know that comes across a bit rude, but I'm genuinely curious.
- Investors frequently say things like this:
“Am I at, or can I get to, profitability on the money I have?...(If so) Go raise “opportunistic money” from your existing investors at a good or great price.”
If you’re profitable and believe that your customers will continue investing in you, you should think long and hard about raising more capital as “the answer.”
Raising more capital is sometimes the answer, and it’s an investor’s job to convince you that raising capital is always the answer.