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Steven Plappert: $1M ARR with Carta’s growth hacks

Steven Plappert: $1M ARR with Carta’s growth hacks

Update: 2023-04-21
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Steven is the CEO and co-founder of Forecastr, the online software that helps founders who hate Excel to forecast revenue, predict runway, understand their numbers & get funded.


The company launched in 2018 and has raised $3.4M from VCs, including Techstars. In this episode of Founder Secrets, Steven provides an inside look into his startup journey—from his mistakes building FantasyHub to how he has stolen Carta’s growth playbook and implemented it at Forecastr to achieve $1M ARR.

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