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Brian Clayton

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
171 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

And so while we want to get most of them in that cohort of people that are running their whole business on the platform, not all of them are in that, obviously.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

Yeah, we're doing about 15%, 20% a year is what we're growing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

And if we can continue to grow... We're almost shy about saying that because it's not like 100% of your growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

We do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

And yeah, our cap table has three line items on it, three co-founders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

And in the early days, we thought we were going to raise capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

We tried it and it was just a big waste of time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

So we said, you know what, let's just build a business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

And I'm glad we made that decision.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

The first five years really sucked.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

But now we're 10, 11 years in, and we're in charge of our own destiny.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

One thing I like to do personally is travel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

I travel 11 months out of the year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

And I couldn't do that if I had a board.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

I couldn't do that if I had investors that I was beholden to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

So it's become kind of like a fast-growing lifestyle business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

Yeah, it was at least four years in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

It was 15, 16.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

We spent a year teaching ourselves how to code and working on the product while we were building it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees

So that was a year, maybe even two, just getting in the game.