964 How SocialBakers Went From $27m to $35m in ARR Over Last 12 Months

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

uval is the CEO of Socialbakers. He has more than twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive in both private and public companies. Before joining Socialbakers, Yuval served as CTO at Outbrain, the leading content discovery platform, managing a global team of 200 people. Prior to that Yuval spent 5 years as CTO at AVG Technologies (NYSE: AVG), where he played a key role in taking the company public. Before joining AVG, Yuval was CTO of the cybersecurity company Finjan, where he led six international groups. He is also the co-founder of the web application security software company, KaVaDo. Yuval is a graduate of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and a holder of 20 U.S. patents. He is a frequent commentator in the media and speaks regularly on technology topics.

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0:00.0	This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got
0:06.9	filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other
0:16.1	insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million.
0:23.6	I had no money when I started the company.
0:25.6	It was a hundred and sixty million dollars which is the size of any IPOs.
0:29.6	We're a bit strapped.
0:30.6	We have like 22,000 customers.
0:33.6	With over five million downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.
0:43.6	I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.
0:48.7	Hello, everyone. My guest today is Yval Ben Itzhak. He's the CEO and founder of Social Bakers.
0:55.1	If you haven't earned a Social Bakers, we'll get to that in a second,
0:57.2	but he has more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive in both private and public companies.
1:02.5	Before joining Social Bakers, he served as the CTO of Outbrain,
1:05.7	the leading content discovery platform managing a global team of 200 folks.
1:09.9	Before that, he spent five years as CTO at
1:13.6	AVG Technologies, where he played a key role in taking the company public. Yvala, are you ready to
1:18.4	take us to the top? Oh yeah. Thank you for having me. You bet. So you have a lot of success before
1:24.1	Social Bakers, but I want to just focus for today on social bakers. You didn't
1:27.6	found the company. So tell us when you joined and why the founder brought you in.
1:32.9	I joined last June. And the founders, you know, they really want to take the company one step up
1:43.9	and the operation gets a little bit more complicated.
1:48.1	And I think that's the time when you want to bring people that's seeing large operations and deal with bigger numbers and can contribute.
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