Founder Interview Video
How Digits Raised $32M to Build a Real-Time Finance Dashboard for SMBs (Interview with Co-Founder Jeff Seibert)
Chapters
- 0:00Introduction and Guest Background
- 0:49First Company: Increo and the Box Acquisition
- 1:43Bootstrapping vs. the VC Path
- 3:37Crashlytics: The 2011 Launch
- 6:25Building Crashlytics on Nights and Weekends at Box
- 8:41Zero to 300 Million Devices in 12 Months
- 9:22Twitter Acquires Crashlytics
- 12:22What Digits Is and Why It Exists
- 13:06Three and a Half Years of R&D and the Coming Launch
- 13:31Distribution First: Lessons from Crashlytics
- 15:00Pre-Revenue, Pre-Launch: The Waitlist
- 15:13Funding: $10M Benchmark A, $22M GV B
- 16:45Pitching With No MAU and No Revenue
- 17:17The 72-Angel Party Round
- 19:05Famous Five: Books, Tools, and Habits
- 20:29Key Lesson: The Importance of Distribution