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Adam Sandman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
453 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

The average deal size is about $10,000 a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

And when we say SaaS, it's a mixture of on-premise and cloud-based, but it is recurring revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

So we maintain both a traditional self-hosted option, but it's still subscription-based as well as a cloud-based offering.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

Total revenue was 60% cloud, 40% on-prem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

New business is more like 70-30, but we do retain and anticipate retaining a significant on-prem business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

Yeah, well, the business was founded in 2006.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

The first customer didn't actually land until September 2007.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

So in 2006, you found the company, started writing the software, released the first version in February.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

You're the sole founder?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

I'm sole founder, correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

I do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

Well, thank you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

And those nine months from January launching the first version to the first sale in September was most nerve wracking probably in 15, 16, whatever it is years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

Currently today, 80,000 users to 5,000 paying customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

No, no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

That's the average.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

It goes from like the 1,000-year small customers up to the $150,000-a-year larger customers, $200,000-a-year type customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

No, I would say it's not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

Because again, the average is not weighted.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

So our revenue right now is just under $10 million.