Marie Ng
- CEO and Founder at Llama Life
GetLatka interview
How Llama Life Reached $21.6K ARR and 950 Customers After Raising $690K Pre-Seed (Interview with CEO Marie Ng)
Marie Ng (CEO and Founder of Llama Life) spoke to Nathan Latka on May 25, 2022.
Llama Life figures from the interview
- ARR (2022)
- $21.6K
- Paying Customers (2022)
- 950
- Pre-Seed Raised (2022)
- $690K
- Pre-Money Valuation (2022)
- $2,750,000
- MRR Churn (May 2022)
- 8%
“I bootstrapped it to 700 paying customers. That was kind of the original plan, but it was a bit serendipitous. So I was building in public on Twitter and someone from Jason Calacanis' team saw Llama Life and they bought the product, they really liked it and they DM'd me on Twitter and they said, Hey, we can see that you're bootstrapping. Have you ever thought about joining an accelerator program?”
“I raised $690 k USD.”
“They take 6% for a 100 k USD.”
Bio
Marie is the founder of Llama Life. After working in advertising in New York City, Marie taught herself to code by watching YouTube videos then built and bootstrapped Llama Life as a solo founder to 700 paying customers. It has since raised a pre-seed round from high-profile investor, Jason Calacanis.