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A bootstrapped B2B company that sells sales reps a single button: press it, wait, and a live human prospect is on the line — priced per dial, 50 million dials a year, run by 33 employees who own no engineering team.
~400 customers, roughly flat since 2019 · about $166K/month to the bottom line in 2019 and "a little bit better than that now" · bootstrapped, profitable, turned down the idea of a $250M sale
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Chris Beall did not found ConnectAndSell and did not come from sales. He was a software technologist when a former employee asked him to talk to Sean McLaren, the man he credits with making ConnectAndSell real. Five minutes into breakfast Beall said he was in. McLaren pointed out that he was not hiring. Beall's answer: this is a free country, you can choose to pay me, but I'm working for you now. He puts that at 2011. What the company sells is deliberately not software. A B2B sales rep pushes one button, waits, and ends up in a live conversation with someone on their list. Everything between the button and the conversation — the phone trees, the gatekeepers, the ninety-plus percent of dials that go nowhere — happens somewhere else, handled by roughly 500 people working inside the system. Beall calls the unit a "fully navigated dial" and prices it like electricity: about 95 cents each when you start, down toward 40 cents when you buy in volume, averaging around 50 cents across the book. At the time of this interview the company was doing about 50 million dials a year, roughly six million a month, for about 400 customers — the same customer count Nathan Latka had recorded in 2019. Multiply 50 million dials by the 50-cent average and you get the roughly $25 million run rate in the video's title. No venture capital, no board to answer to, 33 employees, and a stated refusal to sell for $250 million.
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Join the Unicorn Club — $5/moCancel in one click · first payment refundable for 7 daysData credibility: A founder interview on Nathan Latka's show. Every figure is Chris Beall's own or Latka's arithmetic on top of Beall's unit numbers — nothing is third-party verified. The ~$25M run rate is specifically Latka multiplying a ~50¢ average dial by ~50 million dials a year, with Beall responding "that's great" rather than confirming an audited number; Latka's own recollection of a ~$29M run rate two years earlier is also unverified. Profitability of ~$166K/month comes from a 2019 conversation, updated here only as "a little bit better than that now," and Beall volunteers that they do not track profitability closely. The Pune development cost is an explicit guess — he says $40K a month, then "it might be a bigger number than that, I don't know." The transcript is also internally inconsistent on the founding date: Beall says he joined in 2011, while Latka's closing voiceover says the company "launched back in 2014." Customer count (~400) and dial volume (~50 million a year) are founder-stated with no dashboard shown.