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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 says, first paying customer had the idea seven days ago.

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

Hopefully, this is my Get Emails.

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

Does anybody know what happened one year later?

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 it's like heart be still gorgeous, right?

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've never seen, I mean, despite raising money, I would like to do without.

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 can't even explain to you what this was like.

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 was sitting on Brazos Street in this loft office with these guys.

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

There was six of them on one side of the room, and then I was in a conference room on the other.

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 from January of one year to January of next year, they went from $100 to 50 million ARR.

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

Unbelievable, right?

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 there's good and bad to 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

I'm sitting there with my one salesperson doing 12 million ARR, and I'm like, this has got to be a unicorn.

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 just need to try harder like these guys are, because they raised a bunch of money from all the top tier investors.

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

They started hiring these people that were so inspiring to be around.

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 this guy, Shane Orlick, had a meeting with me.

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

He's like, I think it was at 8 million ARR at the time.

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

He's like, we're sitting in a conference room.

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

What are your metrics?

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

No, no.

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

He's like, that is not acceptable.