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Carl Peel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
151 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

And I managed to buy him out because his lawyer made a mistake.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

He wanted me to sign an NDA saying that not to discuss anything that's happened.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

And I never signed it and got 100% of the shares.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

So I really started pushing ticketing hub.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

That was in October 2019.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

Because he didn't want to sell without me signing this agreement because he's hacked us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

He's done a lot of illegal things and he didn't want me to discuss it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

We're competing in the same industry, actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

I think we're going for different verticals now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

He specialized in hop-on hop-off buses and created this very complicated system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

I want to do the opposite.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

I want to do a very simple and cheap system for 40-50% of the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

I think the market is big enough to have multiple players in the industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

I don't see him as a competition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

Maybe he's going to try to come into our game soon, but not for the moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

I mean, now we've put everything in place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

Before, you know, I'm not a technical person.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

So he was able to control the domain because he had access to Cloudflare.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

So he managed to steal all our historical emails in the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His 50% Co-Founder Hacked Him, Paid $15k to Buy Out, Now $600k in ARR Growing Fast

So there's a lot of things that he was able to do.