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Amir Salihefendić

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238 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

Yeah, I mean, honestly, like the thing to note is like we never actually celebrated any of the milestones.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

So even right now, like when it passed like 1 million or 10 million in ARR, like it's kind of like not really something that we celebrate a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

And the same thing like with customer numbers, it's like I really didn't track that much and I didn't really care that much about it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

So I think like it's kind of like very different from most of other platforms

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

I mean, uh, something that really accelerated a lot, our, our growth was basically the native mobile apps.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

So probably I would say that like the, you know, because if you look at our growth curve, it's based like almost flat from like, uh, when it's kind of a side project for me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

And then when we begin to ramp up, it's kind of like the native mobile apps, like hiring the team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

And that's where it was like the whole, like most of the customer growth comes in as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

We passed that before, probably like 2012 or 13, like when we, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

Yeah, I mean, I could actually maybe look that up, but...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

Yeah, I can look this up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

So let me actually try to do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

Yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

We didn't raise any money, and we still have not raised any money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

I mean, we have actually been profitable, like, from, like, all the years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

I mean, the thing is like the general strategy has been to kind of like reinvest everything back to the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped

I have, of course, like taking some money off the table over the years, but it's not like, you know, I'm not DHH that kind of like.