How Chili Piper Used AI to Hit $40m Revenue, Turn Profitable with Co-Founder Alina Vandenberghe

Co-Founder Eric Boduch joins Latka on stage to share how they got 2,842 leads in Q2 2017. This helped them hit $15m in ARR before growing to over $200m today in Sept 2024. Will Pendo hit $300m before Dec 2025?

Coro launched in 2015 with a bottom up approach to solving sercurity issues for the SMB and midmarket. Today, they've raised $282m in funding to go big, but how much have the founders been diluted? Can they grow into their $750m valuation?

Proposify launched in 2013 and grew to $6m revenue by 2019 before things got scary. The business was burning $400k/month, product started to stall, and a layoff was needed. How did CEO Kyle Racki announce the 25 person layoff? Is the company profitable today? Are they growing again?

Joe launched Issuu back in 2006 to help magazines move digital. He grew to $50m in revenue and raised about $50m. In March 2024 he decided to exit in a nine figure deal. How'd the deal go down? Why did he go with Bending Spoons?

In 2010, she launched one of the first chrome extensions for managing email. Boomerang quickly got 10k downloads and grew revenue using a freemium model. Today, her testing framework is enabling her to drive higher free to paid conversion rates - all from the Chrome Extension Store. Can they hit $12m ARR before Dec 2024?

Retention.com hit $22m of revenue in 2024 on the back of Adam Robinson and team bootstrapping. Wanting to get into B2B, they laucnhed an IP lookup tool called RB2B which competes with Clearbit and 6Sense. How has he used Linkedin to grow? What's driving his 8% free to paid conversion rate? Can he fix churn before its too late?

Rytis Lauris bootstrapped OmniSend to $55,000,000 in revenues. His top growth driver? SEO. Learn how he made his first SEO hire, how he structured his SEO team, and how much traffic this team drives the business today. Will he hit $70m ARR before Dec this year?

Hootsuite was the social media darling of the 2017's by trouble started after a failed $750m IPO led by Goldman. Today, original founder Ryan Holmes and team have tasked new CEO Irina Novoselsky with leading the company from $200m to $400m. She says the old SaaS playbook is dead. Its working. The firm will hit $400m by Dec 2024.

Colin laucnhed the business back in 2012 and got stuck under $5m revenue until 2018. He 6x'd the business by 2022 to $30m in revenue and hit $70m in Septemer 2024. How did he do it? Hear the 9 mistakes he made that he think you should fight to avoid.