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May 2, 2026
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⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
Yasser Elsaid
(Founder, Chatbase, guest)
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Executive Summary
Chatbase, a bootstrapped AI chatbot builder, has successfully scaled to $10 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), demonstrating significant traction in the AI application layer.
The company's journey highlights a rapid growth trajectory, achieving its first $1 million in ARR in just 117 days, driven by a strong product-led growth (PLG) motion.
Founder Yasser Elsaid emphasizes that for customer support use cases, the engineering and prompting 'harness' around the AI model is more critical to performance than the underlying LLM itself, enabling resolution rates of 80-90%.
Chatbase is now strategically shifting its focus upmarket to mid-market and enterprise customers, evolving its go-to-market from viral marketing to a more traditional B2B sales and content strategy.
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