Dan Makarov
- Co-Founder and CEO at Bird Eats Bug
GetLatka interview
How Bird Eats Bug Reached 600 Paid Seats Across 60 Companies After Raising a 1.5M Seed (Interview with CEO Dan Makarov)
Dan Makarov (Co-Founder and CEO of Bird Eats Bug) spoke to Nathan Latka on October 26, 2021.
Bird Eats Bug figures from the interview
- Paid Seats (Oct 2021)
- 600
- Paying Companies (Oct 2021)
- 60
- Total Funding Raised
- 1.5M
- Seed Valuation (post-money) (2020)
- About 6M
- Free Users (Oct 2021)
- 10,000
“About two years ago, like in summer, we had the idea and, the first line of code was written. And I think two months later, we already launched the MVP, so, like, the minimum viable product on Product Hunt, and we got to number five product of the day, and that basically kick started the the company.”
“we have about 10,000 signups to to place.”
“Like, once we launched on Product Hunt, most of it was, like, SEO and and direct traffic, and, like, we listed on a few platforms like Capterra, for example, or GetApp. And at the moment, we're like essentially trying like every single channel that we can get our hands on. In terms of the most successful, like in terms of signups, I would say it was Google Ads”
Bio
Dan spent most of his career in Product Management roles in companies like Google, BCG Digital Ventures, Rocket Internet, etc. Together with 2 ex-colleagues Dan co-founded a B2B SaaS startup building a new kind of a dev tool that helps software development teams report and fix technical issues 30% faster.