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Alex Bean

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
824 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

That sounds nuts, but I can get into the nuances.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

A lot of things that the banks couldn't offer us five years ago, that now they're fully built to offer to these fintechs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

So I think you're going to see a wave of innovation because of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

Nuance, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

And I'm actually, so here's...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

Let me give the, every partnership is different, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

So like anything I give here is not going to be definitive for all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

So Blake, my partner, my friend and partner came to me with the concept of Divi, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

And we formulated it together, but his original idea was his and the name Divi came from him.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

And frankly, he had the money to kind of help kickstart some of this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

How much did he kickstart it with?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

I think that's private.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

Sorry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

I don't know if we've disclosed that, but it was a decent amount of his own money to say, Hey, we're going to go design and engineer and do some stuff before we went and raised formula.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

So he, he had, he has more than me, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

Clearly it was, you know, he had it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

And the advice I would give a non CEO co-founder is you have to understand where you, where you sit for me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

I always knew Blake was the quarterback and I was the running back to use a football reference, meaning I,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back It's been a year since Bill acquired Divvy: Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV

We were partners and I don't think he could have done it without me, but I know I couldn't have done it without him.