Founder Interview Video
How Chimney Reached $300K Revenue and 60 Bank Customers with a $7M Valuation Cap (Interview with Co-Founder and CTO Ryan Salerno)
Chapters
- 0:00Introduction and Guest Background
- 0:19What Chimney Does: Embedded Financial Calculators
- 0:49Second Product: Homeowner Home Equity Tool
- 2:34Pricing: $99 Per Month Per Calculator
- 4:16Company Launch Timeline and Early Validation
- 7:20Bootstrapping to $300K and Raising the Seed Round
- 8:52Outsourced Dev Agency and MVP for $16,000
- 10:17Outsourced Sales with Memory Blue
- 11:17Team Composition: Nine People Total
- 12:03$7M Valuation Cap on SAFE Note
- 12:59ICBA ThinkTech Accelerator Experience
- 15:59Famous Five: Books, Tools, and Habits
- 17:11Closing Thoughts and Wrap-Up