The next Mailchimp? Email SaaS Hit $15m Revenue Last Month
SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nathan Latka
4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Tyler Denk launched Beehiiv after missing out on the ""Founder Money"" the MorningBrew team made when they exited. Today, his tool helps newsletter creators launch, grow, and monetize. The firm did $1.5m in revenue last month split between SaaS, ad revenue, and kickbacks on cross promoting newsletters. Can they hit $25m ARR this year?
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| 0:38.3 | Hey, folks, my guest today is Tyler. Danky, cut his teeth up in Maryland. Check it out right now at GitLatka.com. Hey folks. |
| 0:38.9 | My guest today is Tyler Danky. |
| 0:40.5 | He cut his teeth up in Maryland at the University of Maryland as a research lead before |
| 0:43.6 | finding a marketplace at Venture Storm and ultimately jumping into the world he's now known for |
| 0:48.0 | as the growth engineer in 2017 at Morning Brew. |
| 0:50.7 | He accelerated there in terms of product and growth and eventually senior product lead |
| 0:54.1 | before building the business or helping build the business to millions of subscribers, |
| 0:57.5 | 20 million bucks of revenue and a $75 million exit before jumping then into Google and now |
| 1:02.6 | launching his full-time focus, Beehive, about in August of 2021. We're going to jump to the full |
| 1:08.8 | story today. Tyler, are you ready to take us to the top? |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah, that was a hell of a recap in 30 seconds. Great job. I appreciate that. Out of curiosity, |
| 1:23.7 | you know, Morning Brew is on a tear. You have this unique gene of being like marketer, but also you have an engineering gene in you. |
| 1:30.0 | You write code. Why not stay at Morning Brew post acquisition? Yeah. You said this was a short podcast. So a very loaded question to get started with. But yeah, Morning Brew is amazing. I had an |
| 1:34.7 | opportunity to jump in as the second employee. And I think you nailed it. I have an engineering |
| 1:39.9 | background, growth mindset, understand marketing, understand business, and that combination of |
| 1:45.0 | understanding how all the pieces fit together and being able to build and code and understand |
| 1:49.6 | how to build a polished product. That's kind of been my sweet spot in my career. So came |
| 1:55.5 | into Morning Brew, amazing success story, learned a lot. The founders gave me a ton of room to run. |
| 2:02.1 | But after three and a half years, I'd say like that blank white page of like things to build it was like already established |
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