Sendbird a complete chat solution SDK API-based approach instead of, you know, a JavaScript,

you know, embed kind of intercom-like approach. They're serving over 100 million messages.

Now, John, you said monthly, right? Or annually?

Monthly active users. Monthly active users.

Oh, wow. Over 100 million monthly active users across the 422 customers that are paying them anywhere

between small amounts up to some customers more than a million per year, but average

call it a $30,000 ACV.

Raise $120 million to continue to drive growth still sitting on most of the last round

of $100 million in the bank right now looking strategically at acquisitions in a time of, you know, financial panic. Does acquisitions make sense?

Do they hold it to drive burn? He has plans for all of these things. Over 100% net revenue

retention, though, as they look to continue to scale. Hello, everyone. My guest today is John

Kim. He's the co-founder and CEO of Senberg, a Ycombinator W16 class, is a B2B startup

providing a messaging solution for enterprises. The platform currently served tens of millions

of monthly active users and many of the best known logos around the world like Yahoo

Sports, Hinge, and one of the most active websites in the world. John is a serial entrepreneur

and expert in the messaging space. A little known about John is that he was Korea's number one pro gamer for Unreal tournament. John, you ready to

take us to the top? Yeah, sounds good. Let's do it. I'm not as cool as you. So what does,

what is the Unreal tournament? Unreal tournament is one of those earlier generation first person

shooters. Like Overwatch, but just generations earlier.

So you were in like a massive competition in the finale and you had to message one of your

teammates through the gaming platform and it broke and you said, I'm going to launch

Sendbird to fix messaging once and for all, right? Yep, something like that.

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