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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

We've had over 300 discovery calls.

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 were 1,600 people on the wait list.

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 my killer closer to LinkedIn posts is like, PS, if you want to identify your anonymous website visitors and push their LinkedIn to Slack in real time, DM 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

It's 100% free.

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

Not kidding.

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 you want to do that?

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's a QR code for that, too.

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

We'll call to action.

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

Interestingly, because the megaphone was so strong, I'm obsessed with trying to create a startup that's not super high churn because I haven't done that yet.

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 originally thinking we'd go after the mid-market because I kind of had this brand from LinkedIn, and typically you can't start a startup in the mid-market because you have no brand.

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, let's go to the mid-market, have a sales-led motion, try to go 30 to 50K ACV, and then that would be a lower churn buyer persona.

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 this LinkedIn megaphone,

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

was so prolific that 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

If I have an insane free offer, and I'm heavily influenced by this Mailchimp situation, it's going to help me with this megaphone a lot more than it would help someone who did not.

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 now the offer's insane.

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, if you use it, you talk to people about it.

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 I'm focused on trying to make incredibly viral products and have incredibly viral content.

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 interesting how that evolved over 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

So over the last 20 minutes, I shared how I bootstrapped 22 Millionaire on 48 Months, told you how and why we pivoted to B2B, and how I co-created my audience with 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 if you take nothing else from this talk, take these three things.