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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

Uh, I like, we are actually like rolling out the like employee stock options right now, but like I own most of it and the employees will own in the end, I think 25%.

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

Exactly.

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

So like, yeah, like some, uh, like, yeah, that's basically it.

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

I mean, honestly, like I think, I mean, I was kind of like against this, you know, like the bootstrapping, especially like if you like hear the Basecamp guys, like equity has no value and stuff like that.

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

But it's kind of bullshit because like equity is like, if you want to get wealthy, you know, it's true equity.

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

And I think it's kind of like a way to align people as well on just like building something bigger and also just to reward people.

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

Like there has like some, a lot of actually of our team have been, we do this for like over five years and,

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

You know, I don't really think it's like fair for myself only to make myself like wealthy.

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

I also want to do the same thing for other people.

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

I don't actually, but I mean, I would probably say like 2015 or 16 or something like that.

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 basically like we want to pass like a hundred million in revenues, uh, in the next five years, or like it's right now, probably more like, uh, four and a half years.

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

So that's kind of like the, the goal and it's basically like finding out like the strategy to, to achieve that.

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

Um,

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

Yeah, I mean, I think this year we'll probably pass 15 and maybe a bit more if we are lucky.

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

And next year, I think we'll definitely pass 20.

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

That's at least the plan.

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

I think it's about, yeah, I'm actually not 100%, but probably around 10.