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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

and why I say I'm stuck again, is this unbelievably high churn paradigm.

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'm talking like 60% gross per year.

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 we have so much competition now that I was modeling an expansion revenue, and it's just like a price war.

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 the revenue retention is just as bad.

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 on the other hand, another reason I advocate for bootstrapping.

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

This is our January P&L, after the executives have paid themselves fat salaries, 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

You can make a horrible mistake if you are bootstrapping and still be in a beautiful place.

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 not complaining.

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 why we pivoted to B2B, number one, I got this guy to come work for us a year and a half 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

If you want to look at his LinkedIn real quick, he's a G. He is like the godfather of contact data.

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 the entire time we were growing this e-comm business, he kept telling me, oh, Adam, the leads are worth so much more to the B2B community.

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 was pushing, like as soon as the business got to the point where I could take my attention off it and so could he and we could start focusing on this B2B universe, we basically did.

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 number two, I'm not going to go into exactly how I do LinkedIn because that just wasn't what this presentation was supposed to be about.

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 pivoted my content from trying to attract Shopify store owners to trying to attract B2B revenue leaders.

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 it's a little hard to see, but it's pretty obvious.

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 just 10xed.

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 if you want to see when that happened, that's my LinkedIn.

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 you can go back to Labor Day.

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

August of last year is when I literally went from trying to attract e-comm people to attract B2B 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

And it's just the content.