Yilmaz Köknar
Recent posts focus on sales strategy, data & enrichment and product & building.
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It took 7 days, 688 calls, and 34 demos to "close" our first customers. We had no product at the time but didn't want to make the same mistake twice. That was me four years ago. I had no clue about lead qualification,…
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How we raised our €2.4M Seed Round as first-time founders with no track record and no fancy brands on our CVs. This picture was taken at the end of 2020 at the notary Chapter 3 of the Superchat Journey: Raising our See…
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From 0 to over 4000 Customers -> The Superchat Story The picture was taken four years ago, Mika and I started brainstorming our next "big" idea. We had tried nearly 30 ideas before, and while none really took off, as st…
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Very thrilled to announce, that we raised our Series A round, led by Blossom Capital, with participation from our existing Investors 468 Capital. We are very happy to welcome Alex Lim, Ophelia Brown, Imran Ghory & the wh…
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How we went from closing 2-3 customers per week to closing over 100 customers per week. In the picture, you can see our sales team celebrating hitting some quarterly goals at our anniversary party almost exactly a year…
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Swiss Life Select Deutschland works with more than 310 advisory practices across Germany, part of a group that looks after around 1.9 million clients. As of this week, every sales partner there can license Superchat. Th…
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VR Bank Fulda has been rooted in its region since 1862. In six months on WhatsApp they gained 2,000 new customers and sent 15,000 messages through Superchat. To reach 18 to 30 year olds they set up a dedicated team call…
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Feliks and I had a little conversation 😉 Definitely a special one, the first time I’ve shared the full Superchat story publicly, from both a business and personal perspective. Go listen -> Founder Mode
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Big news for Superchat in the travel industry. Within just a few days, TUI Travel Star and Best-Reisen announced framework agreements with Superchat. Together, we’re bringing modern customer communication and AI Agents…
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A wellness resort with 200+ employees answers 99% of guest inquiries with AI. Last year, that was 200,000 WhatsApp messages. And the AI agent behind it was set up in minutes. Here's how Vabali Spa has done it: Vabali Sp…
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Fun fact: Superchat has grown almost solely through inbound sales over the last six years. That's about to change. With Philipp, we hired a pro to build our whole outbound motion from scratch. We tried outbound for year…
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Everyone assumes my co-founder Mika and I are millionaires now. Truth is: in the first 3 years of Superchat, our salary was 36k/year, we have never sold a single share and still live like students today. I never cared…
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6 years of Superchat. 6 years of building with amazing people. Thank you to everyone who is or has been part of this journey. Sometimes, I tend to zoom in too much, not always seeing the bigger picture. Last Friday, we…
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6 years of Superchat. 6 years of building with amazing people. Thank you to everyone who is or has been part of this journey. Sometimes, I tend to zoom in too much, not always seeing the bigger picture. Last Friday, we…
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5 years ago, this legend joined us as an intern and now he’s our Director of Operations. I’m just waiting for human cloning to become legal so I can make 100 copies of him. Maurizio studied design at one of the best uni…
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I kept our ad spend frozen at €50K/mo for 2 years because I was afraid that pushing it would break something. Now we spend €500K/mo. If I could talk to 2023 Yilmaz, this is what I'd tell him: The flat line is going to s…
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9 days ago we launched our voice agent in front of 1,000+ people. It was wild. BIG shoutout to the whole Superchat team for crushing it, especially the 2 legends who drove it forward: First, Christian. He owned the bu…
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Well well well... it's time. In German, we say, “wir gehen rein”. Today, we are entering the Voice space 😉 Chat Agent + Voice Agent = Superchat Magic. Try it out. We've built the best product on the market that comb…
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This blows my mind. 3 years ago, I hated chatbots. Now I’m watching customers ask my support team to leave their chat so they can go BACK to talking to our AI agent. For context: Every Superchat chat starts with the A…
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Well well well... it's time. In German, we say, “wir gehen rein”. Today, we are entering the Voice space 😉 Chat Agent + Voice Agent = Superchat Magic. Try it out. We've built the best product on the market that comb…
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