Founder Interview
How Cal.com Reached $180K ARR and 1,300 New Customers in April 2022 After a $25M Series A (Interview with Co-Founder Bailey Pumfleet)
- Interview Date
- May 26, 2022
- Interviewee
- Bailey PumfleetCo-Founder
Company Metrics at Interview Time
ARR
$180K
MRR
$15K
Series A
$25M
New Customers (April 2022 spike)
1,300
Price per Seat
$12/month
Historical Snapshot
These numbers were reported by Bailey Pumfleet during his interview recorded in May 2022 and are a historical snapshot, not current figures. See Cal.com’s current numbers.
Key Takeaways
- 01Cal.com was founded in 2021 and launched its brand on September 15, 2021
- 02Bailey Pumfleet wrote the first line of code in February 2021 at age 17
- 03Cal.com raised a $7.4M seed round in June to July 2021 and a $25M Series A in April 2022
- 04Total funding raised is $32.4M across seed and Series A rounds
- 05The platform charges $12 per month per seat for its SaaS plan
- 06Cal.com had 25,000 to 30,000 total users at interview time with roughly 10% paid conversion
- 071,300 new paying customers signed up on April 15, 2022, coinciding with the Series A announcement
- 08Monthly burn was approximately $60K to $70K in a typical month, spiking to $130K in March 2022
- 09Bailey and his co-founder each paid themselves a $70,000 salary
- 10Cal.com operates as an open startup with salaries and financials publicly available
Company Metrics at Time of Interview
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| ARR | $180K | Founder interview, May 2022 |
| MRR | $15K | Founder interview, May 2022 |
| Price per Seat | $12/month | Founder interview, May 2022 |
| New Customers (April 2022 spike) | 1,300 | Founder interview, May 2022 |
| Total Users | 25,000 to 30,000 | Founder interview, May 2022 |
| Paid Conversion Rate | 10% | Founder interview, May 2022 |
| Seed Round | $7.4M | Founder interview, May 2022 |
| Series A | $25M | Founder interview, May 2022 |
| Total Funding | $32.4M | Founder interview, May 2022 |
| Investor Ownership | 25% | Founder interview, May 2022 |
| Founder Ownership (combined) | 60% | Founder interview, May 2022 |
| Monthly Burn (typical) | $60K to $70K | Founder interview, May 2022 |
| Monthly Burn (March 2022) | $130K | Founder interview, May 2022 |
| Co-Founder Salary (Bailey) | $70,000/year | Founder interview, May 2022 |
| Co-Founder Salary (Peer) | $70,000/year | Founder interview, May 2022 |
| Initial Contractor Payment to Bailey | $5,000 | Founder interview, May 2022 |
| Product Hunt Upvotes (April 30, 2021 launch) | 2,500 | Founder interview, May 2022 |
| First-Day Paying Customers (Product Hunt launch) | up to 50 | Founder interview, May 2022 |
Growth Breakdown
Revenue
Cal.com reported $15K MRR, equating to $180K ARR, at the time of the interview in May 2022. The company priced its SaaS plan at $12 per month per seat and acknowledged that the primary revenue growth driver going forward would be enterprise contracts, which were in the pipeline at interview time.
Customers
Cal.com had 25,000 to 30,000 total users with an estimated 10% paid conversion rate. A single-day spike of 1,300 new paying customers occurred on April 15, 2022, coinciding with the Series A announcement and a new version release.
Team
Roughly 90% of the team was engineers, organized into three fixed pay bands: IC1, IC2, and IC3. Bailey and his co-founder each drew a $70,000 annual salary, and all compensation was publicly disclosed as part of the open startup model.
Funding
Cal.com raised a $7.4M seed round in mid-2021 and a $25M Series A in April 2022, bringing total funding to $32.4M. Investors collectively owned 25% of the company, with the two co-founders retaining 60% combined.
Growth Strategy
Open Source as a Distribution Engine
Cal.com is fully open source and self-hostable for free, which drives awareness and adoption. The consumer SaaS plan at $12 per month supports ongoing development and acts as a funnel into enterprise deals.
Founder Brand and Open Startup Transparency
By publishing salaries, MRR, burn rate, and cap table data publicly at cal.com/open, the company generated media coverage and community trust. The open startup model was a deliberate growth tactic credited by Bailey as central to the brand.
Version Launch Cadence Tied to PR Events
Cal.com releases a new version on the fifteenth of each month, timed from the original Product Hunt launch anniversary. The April 15, 2022 release was coordinated with the Series A announcement, producing the largest single-day customer spike of 1,300 new paying customers.
Consumer SaaS as a Pipeline for Enterprise
Bailey described the consumer product as a promotional vehicle: individual users at large companies adopt Cal.com personally, then advocate for enterprise-wide deployment. This bottom-up motion was the stated path to capturing enterprise revenue.
Contract-to-Hire Onboarding for Team Quality
Cal.com hires engineers on a short contractor trial before extending full-time offers, a practice modeled on the co-founders' own initial arrangement. This approach was credited with maintaining team quality and reducing mis-hires.
Best Quotes
“Unfortunately, we can't spell the exact number due to, you know, an NDA, which is which is a shame. But obviously, you know, well, you know, very expensive. It it was a it was probably one of the most significant purchases we'll probably ever make. And, you know, personally, I believe the most effective purchase we'll probably ever make.”
“Cal is essentially the the solution to all of our problems with Calendly and, you know, any of the existing solutions out there. The point is is, you know, I used to use Calendly. I did try SavvyCal. They're great products. They are genuinely good products. But the point is scheduling is like email. It's one of those core foundational things that runs businesses, runs the web.”
“We are we're an entirely open startup. So literally, like, my salary is is publicly available.”
“So we're actually, I think we're more towards the 15 to 20 in mind because essentially, the idea of where we're going to be capturing our revenue, and this was the idea from the very start, is that we plan to succeed in the enterprise side of business.”
“The consumer side is almost like a promotion for us to get our name out there. And then it's like, say somebody at Google signs up and uses it. Then they say to their manager, oh, wait, yeah, I'm using this personally, but I notice they have like an infrastructure offering where we can, you know, implement it at Google on a massive scale.”
“It's not a concern because this has been the plan from day one. We're an infrastructure company. We're here to play the long game. We're here to be like, the best thing that we can summarize it at is the stripe for time.”
“We have three paybacks and that's it. We've got IC one, two, and three, like junior, mid, and senior. Doesn't matter where the hell you are in the world, doesn't matter what like, you don't negotiate a deal or whatever, it's fixed pay bands.”
“We don't just hire people off the bat. We work with them as contractors, then actually move into a proper arrangement with them.”
“I think we got about, it would have been like, maybe up to 50 paying customers in the first day. I don't know exactly.”
“At the age of 15, I didn't know anything about the startup world or anything. I always knew I wanted to do, you know, software engineering or some kind of design. I knew what I wanted to do. I just didn't know the world in which I could do it in.”
What Happened Next
This interview captured Cal.com in May 2022, shortly after closing its $25M Series A and recording a single-day spike of 1,300 new paying customers. At that moment the company was generating $15K MRR and preparing to push into enterprise scheduling infrastructure. The figures above are a point-in-time snapshot reported by co-founder Bailey Pumfleet and do not reflect current performance. Visit the Cal.com company profile on getLatka for the most recent numbers.
View Cal.com’s current profile and metricsFull Transcript
Chapters
- 0:00Introduction and Domain Name Story
- 1:25Seed Funding and Why the Domain Mattered
- 2:29What Cal.com Does and the Problem It Solves
- 4:00First Line of Code and Bailey's Background
- 4:49Sponsor Break: Founderpath Valuation Tool
- 7:12Co-Founder Origin Story
- 10:10Equity Split and Going Full Time
- 11:23First Paying Customers and Product Hunt Launch
- 13:59Pricing Model and Free vs Paid Plan
- 14:37Total Users and Paid Conversion Rate
- 15:54Open Startup Model and Team Salaries
- 17:59April 2022 Customer Spike and Series A Announcement
- 18:38Monthly Burn and MRR
- 21:07Series A Valuation and Long-Term Vision
- 23:23Rapid Fire Questions and Wrap-Up
Introduction and Domain Name Story
Nathan Latka
00:00Hey, folks. My guest today is Bailey Pumpfleet. He's the cofounder of cal.com, schedule infrastructure for absolutely everyone. Bailey, you ready to take us to the top? Yeah. Alright. Cal.com. How much does that domain name cost?
Bailey Pumfleet
00:14>> Unfortunately, we can't spell the exact number due to, you know, an NDA, which is which is a shame. But obviously, you know, well, you know, very expensive. It it was a it was probably one of the most significant purchases we'll probably ever make. And, you know, personally, I believe the most effective purchase we'll probably ever make.
Nathan Latka
00:38Mhmm. When did you do it, the deal? Was it this year or last year or what?
Bailey Pumfleet
00:43>> So it was last year, because I mean, we officially launched the brand of cow.com on September the fifteenth last year. We actually bought it a few months prior, so it was very sort of like tantalizing how we had it sitting there in the domain account and just waiting to use it and waiting to sort of push out the announcement, but obviously we wanted to make sure that our because we coincided it with our version 1.0 and
01:09>> a few other releases, yeah, was something that we sort of held on to for a little while before we made it public.
Nathan Latka
01:16That's awesome. So so you get that done in at last year. Did you guys I mean, you must have raised a bunch of funding to get that deal done then.
Seed Funding and Why the Domain Mattered
Bailey Pumfleet
01:25>> Yes. So earlier that year, I think around sort of July time, we raised a 7,400,000 series plus series a seed round, which really got us started pretty well. And obviously, even to this day, have a low burn rate, we was looking for a good domain name, and we wanted to invest well in that because we're a link sharing business. It's so much nicer to type cow.com than calendly.com or savvycow.com or acuityscheduling.com. So yeah, definitely something which
02:04>> we knew we wanted to put some decent budget into, but yeah, ultimately, without without the first round of run funding, it wouldn't have been possible.
Nathan Latka
02:13And that was just to be clear, you closed the round of funding last year in 2021?
Bailey Pumfleet
02:17>> Yes. That was that was about June, July 2021, and then since, we've raised a series a, which was announced about a month ago.
Nathan Latka
02:25And how much was that?
Bailey Pumfleet
02:26>> That was a 25,000,000 series a.
What Cal.com Does and the Problem It Solves
Nathan Latka
02:29Okay. So let's let's break down the sort of story here before we get too deep into the finances. What is Cal? If if people wanna use it, what do they get?
Bailey Pumfleet
02:36>> What is Cal? Cal is essentially the the solution to all of our problems with Calendly and, you know, any of the existing solutions out there. The point is is, you know, I used to use Calendly. I did try SavvyCal. They're great products. They are genuinely good products. But the point is scheduling is like email. It's one of those core foundational things that runs businesses, runs the web. And the point is that means that people from time
03:07>> to time have complex use cases and things like that, like telehealth or hiring marketplaces or anything that you can think of where scheduling takes part in. Calendly and SaviHal just don't really sort of fit all of their requirements. I mean, they're good products, like if I just want to book one to one sales calls with me, just a basic Zoom setup, that's great. But the point is, is if you're running a massive hiring marketplace and want
03:37>> to be integrating this fully into your platform, have it completely white label, push across 300 users, it doesn't really scale well. So this was literally a solution to a problem which me and my cofounder had had. It was literally just started as a as a side project, but then we found that people actually really, really liked this.
First Line of Code and Bailey's Background
Nathan Latka
04:00When did you guys write the first line of code?
Bailey Pumfleet
04:03>> Oh, so that that's a difficult I think I think I wrote the first line of code in, like, February. It was so, like, I still had a nine to five job there.
Nathan Latka
04:12February 2021?
Bailey Pumfleet
04:13>> Yeah. 2021.
Nathan Latka
04:15And what was your nine to five, Bailey?
Bailey Pumfleet
04:17>> So I I worked at, like, a backup and disaster recovery company. I was doing some, like, small in house software engineering, like customer portals.
Nathan Latka
04:26Oh my gosh. And how how old were you last year?
Bailey Pumfleet
04:30>> Last year, I was 17.
Nathan Latka
04:3217. Okay. So you're 18 today?
Bailey Pumfleet
04:34>> I'm I'm 18 as of today. Yeah. Literally around around the time that we, you know, officially incorporated what then was Calenso, and it's now coward.com. That was just sort of around the the age of becoming 18.
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Co-Founder Origin Story
Nathan Latka
07:12into the interview. And and sorry. Who is your cofounder? How'd you guys meet?
Bailey Pumfleet
07:17>> Well, interestingly, so it it was my cofounder Peer that had the initial idea of this. He basically sort of specked out what he thought, you know, could be a more extensible and open source scheduling solution. And then he published a website out there, just basic with like a wait list, just kind of explaining the idea. And then it was right around that time where his company actually got bought out by OnDeck, and he moved into a
07:46>> role of head of product at OnDeck, and hence he didn't really have the time to work on it, so he was looking for somebody to actually take over.
07:57>> And so what happened is, he's like, I was one of the first people on the wait list for this, super excited about it, because this was just a genuine problem which I'd faced. And then basically, he reached out. I replied back. And then we started off literally just with pure engineering work. I built the very first sort of pre MVP, just connecting to Google Calendar, working out some availability, that kind of thing. And then we decided
08:27>> to actually you know, we work well together. You know, let's put an official arrangement in place. Wait.
Nathan Latka
08:33Bailey, before the original arrangement, how did he incentivize you to do this engineering work? Did he pay you something, or did
Bailey Pumfleet
08:38>> you get out?
08:38Yeah. So it
08:39>> was literally just on a contractor basis. Basis. You know, he literally, like, paid me for, like, two weeks of developing
Nathan Latka
08:44How much? How much?
Bailey Pumfleet
08:47>> I I think he'll be okay. So it was it was 5 it was $5,000. So I love this. I love
Nathan Latka
08:54this story. So he goes, Bailey, listen. You're first on my wait list. I'm busy as hell. If I give you $5, show me what you can do in two weeks.
Bailey Pumfleet
09:01>> Essentially, that was the idea. Yeah. He basically sent it out to everybody on the wait list, and I replied back saying, yeah, I'd love to to take lead on this. And first of all, it was just kind of work as a contractor, as a trial, and then let's see if we work well together before actually committing to incorporating with both of us as founders, which I think is something which we both took as a good learning.
09:28>> It worked well. And we sort of now do that with our employees. We might touch on that a bit more later. But the idea is we don't just hire people off the bat. We work with them as contractors, then actually move into a proper arrangement with them. Ironically, this was the foundation of the company which Peer sold. It was called LeanHire, and it's essentially like a contract to hire platform, where you actually just work at a
09:52>> company as a full on contractor for like two weeks, a month, something like that, and then you move on to like a formal job offer. So we kind of applied that concept to sort of trying me out as as a founder. And, you know, naturally, we found that it worked.
Equity Split and Going Full Time
Nathan Latka
10:10Let's come let's come back to that playbook you use with new employees, but I wanna get back to the origin story here. So then you guys say, okay, let's make this official. Do you guys split split equity fifty-fifty or does he keep the majority because he goes, Bailey was my idea?
Bailey Pumfleet
10:21>> No. We essentially, the idea was is originally it was going to lean towards him being like a minority share just because he wasn't able to put much time towards it. Obviously, he had quite a committed job. But then later on, we actually changed the agreement. Once he decided he was actually going to move to cal.com full time, that's when we decided to split it fifty fifty.
Nathan Latka
10:48So you were a nice guy. You were gonna have 80% because he was busy at OnDeck, and then you start taking it off and he goes, wait, Bailey, let me back in. I wanna do this full time.
Bailey Pumfleet
10:57>> Yeah. Essentially, like, I I respected his position. Obviously, you know, he had a a decent job on deck and was, you know, very occupied with that. But I think it was, you know, it was a clear it was a clear agreement from me to say that, you know, when he could devote his time to it, you know, it would have been massively helpful and massively beneficial to have him on board in a, you know, greater capacity.
First Paying Customers and Product Hunt Launch
Nathan Latka
11:23That's amazing. Okay. Let's fast forward a bit. What month did you guys hit your first paying
11:27>> customer?
Bailey Pumfleet
11:29>> So so that moves on to the the interesting part of the story. So literally, I built the, the most basic MVP, really strain on the word MVP there. I built it for like three weeks, and this thing, I mean, it was hard coded to Google Calendar. You couldn't use anything else. And it just about made a booking. I don't actually think it even had proper time zones at all. I think for me, it was hard coded
11:56>> to the London time zone. I don't know whether it even translated time zones properly, but we launched it on Product Hunt, because already there were people piling up with, like the wait list for this grew to like, I think it grew to like thousands before we'd even shared that we're actually building it. And so we launched it on Product Hunt, and literally that day, we had a whole bunch of sign ups.
Nathan Latka
12:22No, Bailey, quantify that for me. A lot of people use Product Hunt to launch. You guys launched 04/30/2021. You got 2,500 upvotes. How much website traffic or sign ups did you get that day?
Bailey Pumfleet
12:33>> I'm not actually sure on
Nathan Latka
12:35the Do you know a range?
Bailey Pumfleet
12:38>> To be fair, I mean, I think maybe up to 50, which at at the time, we didn't actually have
Nathan Latka
12:45Customers?
12:46>> 50 customers?
Bailey Pumfleet
12:47>> Yeah. Actual paying customers. The How
Nathan Latka
12:49many sign ups, though?
Bailey Pumfleet
12:53>> I mean, ultimately, every sign up was a paying customer.
Nathan Latka
12:55No. No. But did you have any free?
Bailey Pumfleet
12:57>> Oh. No. No. We didn't we didn't do a free plan.
Nathan Latka
12:59Wait, was that a mistake? You got all this traffic on product hunt and no way to capture their email address because you only had a paid option?
Bailey Pumfleet
13:04>> Stop what, yes. Basically like, it was so early stage that we just didn't you know, we didn't even have a solid commercial foot for this, you know. We only started to think about that at a later stage. It was more of a kind of buy it if you're interested and to support the open source. Like, obviously, you can run this thing and self host it for free. You still can to this day. The point is you
13:29>> just pay for the SaaS version if you just want an easy solution and want to support open source. There are lots of companies that do that. I mean, like Metabase or GitLab now has a free plan. But there are a lot of open source companies out there where it's like, if you want it for free, run it yourself. But if you want this, like, SaaS version which ultimately supports the development, then you pay. So yeah, we
13:53>> literally I think we got about, it would have been like, maybe up to 50 paying customers in the first day. I don't know exactly.
Pricing Model and Free vs Paid Plan
Nathan Latka
13:59That's amazing. And real quick, just to not bury the lead, what is what is the average customer paying today for the platform?
Bailey Pumfleet
14:06>> It's well, for the most part, it's all the same. So our our SaaS pricing has remained the exact same. So it's $12 a month.
Nathan Latka
14:13Okay.
Bailey Pumfleet
14:14>> That that's it. We now have a free plan
Nathan Latka
14:17Okay.
Bailey Pumfleet
14:18>> Which, same as Calendly, it gives you a couple of event types, restricts you on a few things. But, yeah, it's always been $12 a month. I love that. However, something to note, and we'll probably touch into that again, is that we have both a consumer SaaS and an enterprise side to our app. So obviously, enterprise pricing is is different. Mhmm.
Total Users and Paid Conversion Rate
Nathan Latka
14:37So I guess you got your first customers from this Product Hunt launch maybe a little bit before that. How many paying customers do you have now today?
Bailey Pumfleet
14:45>> I don't know the number of paying customers off the top of my head, but I know we've got about 25 to 30,000 users as of right now. And as far as
Nathan Latka
14:55Those are free and paid?
Bailey Pumfleet
14:57>> Those are a mixture of free and paid. I believe paid conversion is somewhere around the 10% mark, which tends to be in line with general SaaS companies. Because obviously, half of these free accounts, people signed up for it and forgot it or they were spam or something like that.
15:15>> You know, in terms of ratio, we're looking relatively on par.
Nathan Latka
15:20And so if we take three, you know, 10% of 30,000 is 3,000 paying customers at $12 a month, that means you guys are doing like $40,000 a month right now on revenue, something like that?
Bailey Pumfleet
15:29>> I mean, all of our stats pretty much as well are open completely open. So all the Oh, come on.
Nathan Latka
15:33Share the good stuff. What's the revenue?
Bailey Pumfleet
15:36>> Yeah. So let me pull it up in a tab. So we
Nathan Latka
15:38actually Guys, don't we love it?
15:39>> We love Bailey. Bailey's gonna this is fun.
Bailey Pumfleet
15:42>> Yeah. See, we we unlock all the secrets to our business and literally give you guys everything. I should've just asked that at the start.
15:51>> Open startup.
Open Startup Model and Team Salaries
Bailey Pumfleet
15:54>> Yes. We are we're an entirely open startup. So literally, like, my salary is is publicly available. The I love this. For the team, the
Nathan Latka
16:04You're making you're making 7 I'll have to read some of this. You're making $70,000 salary. Pierre makes 70,000 as well. Your is Alex, your lead software engineer, makes a $100?
Bailey Pumfleet
16:13>> Oh, one of the two. So you have Alex and Omar there. They're out to, like, IC three level engineers.
Nathan Latka
16:22Damn it. I wish I knew about this ahead of time. Okay. So I have a bunch of questions now. Does this create conflict on the team? Someone goes, Joe's making more money than me. I do more work than he does. Pay me more.
Bailey Pumfleet
16:30>> Right. Yeah. Here goes into another one of our policies which has worked pretty well. So we have three payback or or in in engineering, which is like 90% of our team, we have three paybacks and that's it. We've got IC one, two, and three, like junior, mid, and senior. Doesn't matter where the hell you are in the world, doesn't matter what like, you don't negotiate a deal or whatever, it's fixed pay bands, which means that if
16:54>> you're doing the same responsibilities as like anybody, you're not getting paid any different. So we have complete equality on every
17:05>> demographic across the world. So we have engineers in India who are making like 1132% of the average salary, and we're paying that same money, you know, anywhere in the world.
Nathan Latka
17:19Yeah. That's super interesting. So, it doesn't even matter if it's copywriter versus head of product versus senior engineer. If it's IC one, two, three, four, that's what determines your pay.
Bailey Pumfleet
17:28>> Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty much the fixed bands for engineering. I mean, you know, there's me, Pierre, and Kieran who are, you know, not within the engineering. So that's slightly different. But yeah, I mean, for like 90% of our team, which is engineering, literally it's just fixed bands. And we've had really good feedback from the employees about that. They really like that it's completely transparent that nobody's leveraging better deals out of us than Yep. Than anybody else.
April 2022 Customer Spike and Series A Announcement
Nathan Latka
17:59You closed 1,300 new paying customers in the middle of April this year. It's your big spike in our new customer sign up graph. What happened there?
Bailey Pumfleet
18:07>> I mean, so every fifteenth of the month, marking from the anniversary of when
18:16>> we actually first released it on Product Hunt, we launched a new version. And so we coincided the cow.com release to that with the series A as well. So yeah, we announced series A then. And hence, with that comes a lot of media coverage and social media coverage, that kind of thing.
Monthly Burn and MRR
Nathan Latka
18:38Your burn graph, monthly burn in March, monthly burn was $130,000. That's net burn or total expenses?
Bailey Pumfleet
18:45>> That's that's total. And that was actually an unexpectedly high month. We had quite a few, one off expenses in that. Generally, like without one off expenses, we're generally looking at, I think, about 60 ks, 70 ks between the team, add on maybe some stuff from the law firm and bits like that. We're looking at under a 100 k generally.
Nathan Latka
19:08Yep. And so sorry, what I'm looking for the MRR graph. What is monthly recurring revenue today?
Bailey Pumfleet
19:12>> Yes. The the issue with that is that Stripe has some trouble exporting. So I think as of yeah. I don't actually have that hand right now. You
Nathan Latka
19:28must have a general idea.
19:29>> What's like a general idea? $40.50, 60,000 a month, something like that?
Bailey Pumfleet
19:33>> So we're actually, I think we're more towards the 15 to 20 in mind because essentially, the idea of where we're going to be capturing our revenue, and this was the idea from the very start, is that we plan to succeed in the enterprise side of business, which that is what we're launching somewhat now, next few weeks, next few months. So this is where we're really starting to close the pipeline on enterprise. So the real sort of
20:07>> cold, hard cash growth of cowl.com is looking to be within the next few months rather this period has just like, the idea for us is we build up a good name for ourselves in consumer SaaS. Then we leverage that to then break into the enterprise market and hopefully succeed there. Because the point is there's no real point in just being another open source alternative to x, y, zed. It's like
Nathan Latka
20:34No, you're right.
Bailey Pumfleet
20:35>> If you have an open source Facebook alternative, it's not going to do well. Like, our idea is like, the consumer side is almost like a promotion for us to get our name out there. And then it's like, say somebody at Google signs up and uses it. Then they say to their manager, oh, wait, yeah, I'm using this personally, but I notice they have like an infrastructure offering where we can, you know, implement it at Google on
21:02>> a massive scale. And then that's how we find a lot of deals go through.
Series A Valuation and Long-Term Vision
Nathan Latka
21:07This makes a ton of sense. Hey, we're running short on time here. A couple quick things that maybe aren't public yet that maybe you can share. You raised 25,000,000 series a, what valuation was that at?
Bailey Pumfleet
21:16>> That is one thing that we can't actually share.
Nathan Latka
21:19Okay. We have the cap table on your site. It says investors own 25%, so we can reverse engineer the the valuation, right?
Bailey Pumfleet
21:26>> Yeah. You you're more than you're more than welcome to make a guess at it, but I'm just gonna hold a poker face when you
Nathan Latka
21:33Well, no. Sorry. Sorry. Just to be clear, you have your cap table here. You have percent you just have investors on 25%. So right? So if you raised you're you're It's not It's I don't have to guess. Right? You can do the math. We can do the math together.
Bailey Pumfleet
21:45>> Yeah. It's Whether or not it will be 100% accurate.
Nathan Latka
21:51The point is you've sold between two rounds, a 7.4 seed last year and a 25,000,000 series a this year. You've sold in total 25% of the business to investors. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So if you sold 15% in your series a, right, you can effectively take 25,000,000 times six and say that you guys raised pre money at a 150.
Bailey Pumfleet
22:11>> Close. But
Nathan Latka
22:12Alright. Bailey keeps his poker face. Alright. We'll say somewhere around
Bailey Pumfleet
22:16>> That that's why I say, yeah. I I I'm not I'm not sure if I can say the actual number, but
Nathan Latka
22:23You get nervous, though, growing into that valuation with 15,000 of monthly recurring revenue right now? I mean, you're trading at, an 830 x multiple.
Bailey Pumfleet
22:31>> Yeah. It's it's not a concern because this has been the plan from day one. We're an infrastructure company. We're here to play the long game. We're here to be like, the best thing that we can summarize it at is the stripe for time. And to become Stripe, you need to be around for a long time to start then capturing that kind of market share. Because in terms of infrastructure, like scheduling infrastructure, we are the market leader
22:58>> in that because there is nobody really in that market. Like, we do do open scheduling infrastructure, which nothing else does. There's kind of Nihilas and a few other platforms that kind of do things, but nobody has the customizability that we have. So already, we're seeing a lot of really good signals from customers right now.
Rapid Fire Questions and Wrap-Up
Nathan Latka
23:23Hailey, great lessons here. We've we've got to wrap up here because we're out of time. So quick quick questions here. Number one, favorite book.
Bailey Pumfleet
23:30>> Favorite book?
23:32>> Probably probably The Martian. I like I like realistic sci fi.
Nathan Latka
23:39Number two, is there a CEO you're following or studying?
Bailey Pumfleet
23:44>> Not particularly. I I always think it's a bad idea to just look up to one person. I think it's always best to, you know, combine ideas across a bunch of people.
Nathan Latka
23:53Number three, what's your favorite online tool for building Cal?
Bailey Pumfleet
23:58>> Online tool for build? Probably Metabase. I think it's hands down the best analytics platform that we've worked with. It's super easy, and it's open source.
Nathan Latka
24:06Number four, how many hours of sleep do you get every night?
Bailey Pumfleet
24:09>> How many hours of sleep? I'd say about eight, the, you know, the regular number.
Nathan Latka
24:13Are you skipping college,
Bailey Pumfleet
24:14>> We by the
24:17>> don't really like, here it's university and it's kind of optional. There's no
Nathan Latka
24:22Okay.
Bailey Pumfleet
24:23>> I didn't skip any education. I did my fall.
Nathan Latka
24:25Alright. Fair enough. So eight you're 18 today. I assume I always ask married, single kids. I assume you're not married and you have no kids. Right?
Bailey Pumfleet
24:33>> No. Not married and no kids.
Nathan Latka
24:35Alright. Very cool. And last question here. I usually ask, what do you wish your 20 year old self knew? That doesn't apply to you. So let me ask you, what do you wish you knew when you were 15?
Bailey Pumfleet
24:46>> Probably everything. I mean, at the age of 15, I didn't know anything about the startup world or anything. I always knew I wanted to do, you know, software engineering or some kind of design. I knew what I wanted to do. I just didn't know the world in which I could do it in. So, yeah, I'd probably show myself I'd probably put my 15 year old self through YC or something like that, you know, open my eyes
25:09>> to the world of startups, fundraising, and all the cool stuff you can get up to.
Nathan Latka
25:14Guys, we have it. Cal.com open source version of, call it, Calendly. They're building sort of infrastructure, which is very interesting. They've got over 3,000 paying customers, call it $10.12 bucks a customer doing $15,000 a monthly recurring revenue. Raised 25,000,000 series a recently to keep building this for the long term. Everything's open at cal.com/open. So it's really nice. You can sort of track them over time, track salaries, all that jazz. Bailey and his co founder own 60%
25:37today. They each pay themselves $70 salaries. We're rooting for him. We'll see what happens next. Bailey, thanks for taking us to the top.
Bailey Pumfleet
25:43>> Thank you very much.
Nathan Latka
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