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Brynn Gibbs

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
194 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

So I kind of fell into this on accident.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

I was helping a close family friend who's now a retired dentist.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

This was when Yelp and Google reviews kind of just became popular and he was attacked online by a vindictive ex-employee.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

So his new patient drop-off numbers were down for several months and someone finally brought this to his attention.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

And I offered to help him clean it up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

And that turned into introductions to people in his local rotary group that was a plastic surgeon and attorney who were dealing with similar situations, but with like a competitor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

So from there, it just was kind of personal referrals, recommendations, and it was a month-to-month continuing service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

So it just kind of snowballed and grew from there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

Oh gosh.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

I mean, it was pretty small, but I want to say maybe around like, it was under a hundred thousand, but I was also doing it myself too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

Well, so for us, MRR is everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

And I was just seeing the long-term picture and realizing, okay, if I want to continue growing the way that we are, I need to have a platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

A, for my backend, but also for my customers to use.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

And I always had the vision of enterprise level.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

So like how brands can manage multiple locations at once.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

So it was pretty quick at the starting point where I knew I needed software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

And...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

I haven't had any outside investments.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How She Bootstrapped to $4m in ARR Helping You Fight Negative Reviews

So we're bootstrapped and it's definitely been, I've needed to be patient because it's evolved over time and the software has continued to improve year after year.