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Alex Moore

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
153 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

Doing something else, working on something else so they don't burn out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

And on those days, we rotate someone else from the team onto support.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

So the problem we got is as a browser extension, it's really hard to link someone who comes onto the website and downloads to somebody who then starts using the product and do that in an accurate way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

So I don't think I would be... You shouldn't do what we do unless you have to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

Because we have that wall where it's really hard to cross over and see, okay, this cohort came from this and here's how they're doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

We don't really know

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

Um, which group did what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

And so, uh, so I think, uh, I think we're in a position where we had to do it with duct tape and glue instead of doing it right in that case.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

We do, but we don't disclose it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

Yeah, and that's moved for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

So we reached the point where we became profitable and had to start paying Uncle Sam, which is kind of a free place to be.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

But it basically means that 40% of all the profit you make goes out the door to Uncle Sam.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

And so depending on how profitable we are, our ratio changes over time, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

If we weren't profitable, we'd probably... We're a cash flow business these days.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

We've raised $400K in funding total

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

And so it kind of is like, okay, here's, you know, we move around as we have revenue go up and down and as things change for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

The one that I've read most recently that I loved was Creativity, Inc.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
33: How to Build a $100m SaaS Company

Yeah, it was just, it was a revelation, you know, hearing how they managed to keep creativity going even after so many years.