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A better way to get your first 10 customers
Talks about B2B sales, cold emailing and customer acquisition
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Chris Bakke
Founder
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Chris Bakke is the Founder and CEO of Laskie.com, a company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a focus on investing in seed and pre-seed stages within sectors such as Real Estate/PropTech, Marketplaces, Consumer Internet, and Enterprise, Chris has successfully established and led Laskie.com to prominence in the Bay Area startup scene.
Work Experience
X
2023 - 2024
Supported a young, hungry, relatively-unknown entrepreneur named Elon Musk in his quest to turn X into the everything app. Billions in revenue, hundreds of millions of monthly active users, and tens of millions of times I have personally fixed the office espresso machine.
Founder, CEO
2021 - 2024
Helping companies hire great people. Laskie was acquired by X/Twitter in 2023.
Laskie provides sales funnel analysis, react website construction, email outreach, Facebook ads campaigns, and other services.
Raised $6,000,000.00 from Fourth Realm, Adapt Ventures, AngelList, Bloomberg Beta, TRAC, Peak State Ventures, Rebel Fund and NKM Capital.
Head of Product, Central
2019 - 2020
Led product for a suite of enterprise products where more than 250 million people search for jobs, post resumes, and research companies each month.
Co-Founder, Indeed Assessments
2017 - 2019
In August of 2017, Indeed acquired Interviewed and our team built the largest, most helpful assessment company in the world. We have over 600,000 customers, and our clients send millions of assessments each week.
Indeed is an employment-related metasearch engine for job listings.
Raised $5,000,000.00 from Union Square Ventures, The New York Times and Allen & Company.
Founder
2015 - 2017
Companies use Interviewed to quickly and accurately determine which candidates are the right fit for the role. We were acquired by Indeed.com in 2017.
Interviewed empowers hiring managers to observe applicants in action as they demonstrate their real-world skills.
Raised $2,000,000.00 from SV Angel, Workday Ventures, CEAS Investments, Switch Ventures, Ihar Mahaniok, LAUNCH, Red Swan Ventures, Touchdown Ventures, FundersClub and Great Oaks Venture Capital.
Chief Operating Officer
2013 - 2015
42Floors is the first true search platform for commercial real estate. Raised $17.5m from Y Combinator, Thrive Capital, NEA, and Bessemer, and was acquired by Knotel.
42Floors makes it easy to search for office space.
Raised $17,400,000.00 from Thrive Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Columbus Nova Technology Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners.
Director of Business Development
2011 - 2013
Zillow (Nasdaq $Z) is the largest real estate marketplace where users can easily find vital information about homes, and connect with reputable, local professionals.
Zillow is an online real estate marketplace for finding and sharing information about homes, real estate, and mortgages.
Raised $96,627,980.00 from TCV and TCV.
Director of Business Development
2010 - 2012
RentJuice connects prospective renters, brokers and property managers to each other in real-time. We raised $6m from Thrive Capital, Highland Capital, DFJ, and more, and were acquired by Zillow for $40m.
Education
Latest Articles
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I interviewed the CEOs of the hottest AI sales agent startups.
Talks about AI sales agents, outbound sales and AI in business growth
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Going from $0 to $2M ARR with founder-led sales in 18 months
Talks about tech memes, go-to-market strategies and sales
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New brain chips, going incognito, and web3 burgers
Talks about Google's incognito mode controversy, Spotify's AI-generated playlists and California's bill on news publishers payment