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All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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Re: All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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post #8

Personal favorite snippet from the article: > With this pedigree, PullRequest has managed to draw interest from 450 teams. Though only a portion of these are actually using the service, PullRequest touts a $136 million annualized revenue run rate. From Crunchbase: founded May, 2017. As a disclaimer, I'm no accountant, but that just seems downright deliberately misleading. Their standard plan is $49/mo.

Probably a typo or mistake by the reporters.

Re: All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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post #8

Personal favorite snippet from the article: > With this pedigree, PullRequest has managed to draw interest from 450 teams. Though only a portion of these are actually using the service, PullRequest touts a $136 million annualized revenue run rate. From Crunchbase: founded May, 2017. As a disclaimer, I'm no accountant, but that just seems downright deliberately misleading. Their standard plan is $49/mo.

Maybe all of their current customers are on the enterprise plan?

Re: All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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post #5

Wish we had a list of what they are all using on the front and back ends.

Although I think that might be interesting, would it actually be valuable? Serious question honestly, what would that do for us? How would we use that data?

To discuss it? I guess?

Re: All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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I find it interesting that "Honeydue" is in the list, when there are multiple free apps already in existence such as Buxfer and Splitwise that have already been available for years.

Both Buxfer and Splitwise serve the exact same functions as Honeydue (splitting bills/expenses with room mates and/or partners), and both of them are free to use. Sadly, neither app has found a way to be all that profitable after all these years.

Maybe Honeydue will do something to solve the marketing problem that apparently both Buxfer and Splitwise have?

Re: All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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post #8

Personal favorite snippet from the article: > With this pedigree, PullRequest has managed to draw interest from 450 teams. Though only a portion of these are actually using the service, PullRequest touts a $136 million annualized revenue run rate. From Crunchbase: founded May, 2017. As a disclaimer, I'm no accountant, but that just seems downright deliberately misleading. Their standard plan is $49/mo.

I'd guess it's a 136 thousand run rate, and there's just a typo in the article. $136 million would really be something.

Re: All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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post #8

Personal favorite snippet from the article: > With this pedigree, PullRequest has managed to draw interest from 450 teams. Though only a portion of these are actually using the service, PullRequest touts a $136 million annualized revenue run rate. From Crunchbase: founded May, 2017. As a disclaimer, I'm no accountant, but that just seems downright deliberately misleading. Their standard plan is $49/mo.

From their standard billing option section.

> * Billing is dependent on amount of meaningful change per month. $9 per user per month for static analysis.

I agree it still sounds far fetched that their at the $136 million ARR, but it's not infeasible they're somewhere near the the low-to-mid 8-figures, with their enterprise solutions as well.

If it was $9/user, for all those companies that figure would require the average team size to be 2,800 people. Which is extremely unlikely.

Re: All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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post #8

Personal favorite snippet from the article: > With this pedigree, PullRequest has managed to draw interest from 450 teams. Though only a portion of these are actually using the service, PullRequest touts a $136 million annualized revenue run rate. From Crunchbase: founded May, 2017. As a disclaimer, I'm no accountant, but that just seems downright deliberately misleading. Their standard plan is $49/mo.

That's a pretty bad typo. $136K.

Re: All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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post #8

Personal favorite snippet from the article: > With this pedigree, PullRequest has managed to draw interest from 450 teams. Though only a portion of these are actually using the service, PullRequest touts a $136 million annualized revenue run rate. From Crunchbase: founded May, 2017. As a disclaimer, I'm no accountant, but that just seems downright deliberately misleading. Their standard plan is $49/mo.

Founder of PullRequest here: To be clear: $136,000, not $136mm. Typo on article.

Re: All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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Overall, I think this is a really impressive list. It seems like a varied mix, and given criticism from a couple years back that Silicon Valley isn't focusing on "hard" stuff, was cool to see lots of awesome tech (auto-piloting planes! robot vegetable pickers!)

Re: All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1

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post #18
post #8

Personal favorite snippet from the article: > With this pedigree, PullRequest has managed to draw interest from 450 teams. Though only a portion of these are actually using the service, PullRequest touts a $136 million annualized revenue run rate. From Crunchbase: founded May, 2017. As a disclaimer, I'm no accountant, but that just seems downright deliberately misleading. Their standard plan is $49/mo.

Founder of PullRequest here: To be clear: $136,000, not $136mm. Typo on article.

Gotcha! Thanks for clarifying; that makes a lot more sense.

Congrats on the revenue and best of luck growing the company.

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