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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 problem with giving out stock when you're private and you're not going to invest it back is it's a lot of legal complications dealing with that, giving away private stock.

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

So we have a good cash-based compensation.

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

We have a team bonus.

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

We do things that are encouraging for the culture.

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

Wait, Adam, teach me about that.

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

What we do is every year we look at the profit target for the year for the company.

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

We divide it by the number of employees.

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

We obviously allow how much we want to retain.

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

And then we say that funds the bonus pool.

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

Look at the number of employees.

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

Give everyone based on their role an allocation of the bonus pool.

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

And then at the end of each six-month period, we say,

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

If, say, we were going to make X thousand dollars in revenue, sorry, in profit, and we made it, everyone gets their full bonus for six months that they had in their pool.

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

If we made 50% of our target, everyone gets 50%.

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

But we have actually, and one thing, we have no sales commission.

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

So everyone, even salespeople, are all on salary, and everything is a team bonus that the company makes as a whole.

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

And for us, that's really important.

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

It encourages that we work together as a team or sync to the team.

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

I can't give you the dollar number, but I can say we fully funded it for the year and for that six-month period.

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

I see.