Bootstrap de $0 a +$15M ARR en 18 meses | Felipe Aranguiz (Director de Revenue, Instantly)

17 Apr 2024 · 81 min
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17 Apr 2024 · 81 min

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Podcast interview (Spanish) with Felipe Aranguiz, Director of Revenue at Instantly (recorded Apr 17, 2024). Felipe describes his career from sales to growth, running an outreach agency, and joining Instantly as an early user/employee. Key takeaways: cold email remains viable when updated; four pillars for successful cold outreach (offer, copy, data, technical setup); personalization (including AI) helps but simple local touches work; Instantly grew fast by dominating a niche (digital agencies), seeding influencers, aggressive pricing, heavy educational content and community-building (webinars, YouTube, large Facebook group), and tight product–marketing loops. Instantly is bootstrap-funded, reached ~$10–15M ARR in ~18 months, has ~60 employees, and is expanding from product-led toward adding sales-led (enterprise) motions. Felipe hired ~7 people under his remit and emphasizes fast experimentation, clear goals, delegated training (recorded onboarding), and cautious capital acceptance.

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April 17, 2024.

About 10 years.

Reached >$10M and reported scaling to ~$15M ARR within ~18 months (company shared growth publicly before limiting metrics).

About 60 employees.

Approximately seven hires.

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