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Aaron Fulkerson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
272 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

And, you know, look, we put out all the source code so other people could have picked up and run with the open source community.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

uh it's when you don't have a driving force behind it like typically the founders of an open source project it dies they actually they atrophy and die yeah i will tell you i still like i'll go to events and um i was just at dreamforce the big salesforce event and people still come up to me to this day six years later and they're like oh yeah we're using the open source that's so funny

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

We have not released a patch or an update to that since January of 2010.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

And I'll have people who come up and say, oh, you're Aaron.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

You and Steve did MindTouch, and you guys did that Enterprise Wiki.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

This was just last year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

I built a $12 million annual consulting business just doing services on your open source.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

I'm like, you were doing four times more than we were, man.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

Well, you know, we don't we don't disclose the revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

And there's good reasons because we have certain partnerships that preclude us from doing that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

Well, you know, we're doing, we're, we're well into eight figures, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

And a better way to think about it, I think is this, the kind of scale that we're driving on our cloud infrastructure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

So we have, we have, um, over 300 customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

And, okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

So there's, there's, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

just over 300.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

And then if you look at like our number of events that we do monthly, we're doing like a billion events monthly.