Kate Bradley Chernis
- Founder and CEO at Lately
GetLatka interview
How Lately Got to $79K MRR With 358 Customers on $3.3M Raised (Interview with CEO Kate Bradley Chernis)
Kate Bradley Chernis (Founder and CEO of Lately) spoke to Nathan Latka on October 13, 2021.
Lately figures from the interview
- MRR (2021)
- $79,000
- Customers (2021)
- 358
- Total Raised
- $3,300,000
- Team Size (2021)
- 7 full-time
- Runway (2021)
- 18 months
“So we have 358 customers.”
“MRR is at 79,000. We were up to 94 and we dropped.”
“I've raised 3,300,000 now.”
Bio
Kate Bradley Chernis is the Founder & CEO of Lately, which uses AI to automatically transform longform content like blogs, podcasts and videos into dozens of "smart" social posts it learns will yield the highest engagement from your audience. As a former marketing agency owner, Kate initially created the idea for Lately out of spreadsheets for then-client, Walmart, and got them a 130% ROI, year-over-year for three years. Prior to founding Lately, Kate served 20 million listeners as Music Director and on-air host at Sirius/XM. She’s also an award-winning radio producer, engineer and voice talent with 25 years of national broadcast communications, brand-building, sales and marketing expertise.