SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1751 SendBird Messaging SDK Sitting on $100m Cash, $20m in ARR

May 10, 2020

24:17

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Origins of Sendbird

2min

How Wysiwig Priced the Uber Platform

2min

How to Price Your Platform for Maximum Profits

2min

How Mom Site Pivot Scaled to 400 Customers in 2015

2min

How to Grow a Startup in YYC

2min

How to Raise More Money in the Venture Track

2min

How to Control Your Burn

3min

How to Acquire Companies That Can Accelerate Your Product Roadmap

2min

10.

The Importance of Churn in SaaS

2min

11.

The Great CEO Within

2min

12.

How to Raise 100 Million Dollars on a Smaller Stack of ARR

3min

John S. Kim is the Cofounder and CEO of SendBird (Y Combinator W16), a B2B startup providing a messaging solution for enterprises. The platform currently serves tens of millions of monthly active users and many of the best-known logos around the world, like Yahoo! Sports, GO-JEK, Hinge and one of the most active websites in the world. John is a serial entrepreneur and an expert in the messaging space. Little known about John is that he was Korea's no.1 pro-gamer for Unreal Tournament.