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Ben Dobyns

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
172 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

But again, because, you know, our goal here is not an exit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

We're not looking for an exit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

We're not looking for an IPO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

We're storytellers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

So the goal from the beginning, how do you, how do you on here though?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

So, and that's, that's really where we're still very much in a growth stage.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

So my goal is to put as much into our people and into our team and into our production value as possible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

So how do you expand this?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

Well, you know, in some ways what we do is really similar to software as a service business models.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

And the growth curves are very similar.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

And we're actually in a place right now where, you know, when you're doing software as a service, you kind of hit that point where you've just managed to start breaking even.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

And the wrong decision is to then continue on that path.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

The right decision is you want to turn around and then lose a bunch of money into increasing your growth curve.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

And so we're at that point right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

And like I said before, I've turned down a lot of money in venture capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

Most recently, half a million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

You know, I actually don't know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 478: Fans Pay $500K To Keep Favorite Shows, Will This Kill Netflix with CEO Ben Dobyns

Well, I wasn't going to give them any because they were venture capital.