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🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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20 year old wins $3m playing poker, launches SaaS. He raised $18.2m. After 7 years and dilution down to under 50% he left to launch his new bootstrapped company. Whippy helps lawyers run their operations and hit $4m ARR this month. Can he hit $10m bootstrapped?
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0:43.3 | Guys, David, in 2008, 9, 10, 11 was the height of actually his poker career, won the world's poker in 2008, which was great. |
0:47.3 | Use that money, said, okay, I'm going to business school, Sharpen up here, then launched a company |
0:50.8 | called Bloom Nation in 2012. |
0:52.3 | Stayed there until about 2020. You know, they |
0:55.1 | raised a bunch of money. There were three founders. They got really diluted. The three founders owned |
0:58.8 | about caught under 50% of the company when he left and ultimately launched with the AI, |
1:03.0 | which is now helping folks like doctors offices, right, do better marketing and also use, |
1:08.3 | use the platform for operational experience. He's currently got out 600 |
1:11.1 | customers paying an average 600 bucks a month, but clear enterprise motion built in here. He already |
1:15.5 | has customers that are paying more than $100,000 bucks per year. He's hoping to expand in that |
1:19.9 | market and drive revenue growth this year in 2024 of over 75%. They're at about 4 million run rate |
1:25.0 | today up from $2 million a year ago and about a million before that. |
1:27.6 | So good growth, all bootstrapped, which we love. |
1:30.4 | Hey, folks, my guest today is David Danishkar, as a former WSOP champ, co-founder of Bloom Nation, and today, co-founder of Whippy. |
1:38.8 | David, you ready to take us to the top? |
1:41.0 | Yeah, yeah, go for it. |
1:42.6 | Well, I did not know you play poker. |
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