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Brian Littleton

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
179 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

I can't share what we're doing, but the AWIN report for Black Friday is what I was going to hope to talk about in terms of a numbers perspective.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

Let's do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

That'll really help you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

If you were to go to awin.com slash Black Friday, they have numbers just for that time period of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which are pretty impressive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

And what I can share is from that report, so you don't have to click through, $400 million generated for clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

Um, that's a pretty big number when you're talking about four days worth of commerce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

Um, so just as one of the, um, companies in this space, and obviously that's, those are numbers for the entire alien group.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

Um, so they're global numbers, but, um, you know, the, the space is very large.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

I can't really.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

I just can't get into it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

So that's why I was trying to give you some numbers that show a little bit better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

Totally bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

It was really quite an exciting ride.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

This started as a side project for me, as I'm sure most people and entrepreneurs do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

I put it together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

I looked at the fact that this business model is entirely cash positive, basically from day one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

And the fact that I'm a developer, so I was able to build the tech that goes behind it, put me in an advantageous situation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

Sole owner, sole developer at the very start, which was a mess.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

That's awesome.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
932 How ShareASale CEO Kept 100% Equity, Sold For $35m+

People that were smarter than me later.