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Adam Robinson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
726 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

It's like, man, bootstrapping 22 million ARR in four years is incredible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

But how did you go 0 to 1?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

Where did you even start?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

And then when I tell how I got 0 to 1, it's how did you go 1 to 10?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

So first 0 to 1.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

I think Facebook is an incredible first thing that you can do to spread awareness for your startup.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

I don't think it's a great later on thing for many people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

But a lot of SaaS has to start.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

And I've heard Nathan say this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

You start by selling something for $9 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

And then you gradually realize that you have to just move up market as quickly as possible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

And that is most people's journey.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

When you're selling something for $9 a month, you can sell it on Facebook.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

So taking it back to 2019, this was when Snapchat was happening and Instagram stories were coming out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

And I just saw people walking around doing this and taking these amusing videos of themselves with interesting backgrounds.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

And I was like, you know what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

I wasn't even on social media.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

But I was like, I wonder if I can make a one minute amusing video

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

every week that answered the sales questions of this product and have an interesting background.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

So me and my wife Helen tried that.