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Carson Conant

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
185 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

So they don't have to run through a big procurement process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

You know, they can each buy it individually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

And because the model's self-service, we can support it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

Most of the customer growth?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

Probably about half the, let's see, probably about a third of that growth since the last time you and I talked was organic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

The other two thirds came from this acquisition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

Yeah, we talked to them about two years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

At the time, you know, we hadn't done an acquisition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

We now have, so we, you know, we didn't have that muscle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

And, you know, we hadn't figured out some of our own stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

So, you know, we kept in touch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

They were in a place where I just, you know, I talked to them and convinced them to merge themselves into Mediafly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

So, and, you know, they're similar culture, very similar technical, you know, competencies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

It gives us a great headquarters in the UK now too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

Um, so, you know, international is a big piece of our business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

And, um, so the combination of all those things just made it a natural, natural fit for both of us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

Yeah, no, we did end up putting some cash up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

I don't think I'm allowed to say what it was, but it did include cash as well as debt on our side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

But this was different than our previous acquisition in that there were some outside shareholders that we needed to buy out versus a true acqui-hire where everything just rolls in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised

And, you know, we're looking at a couple more similar to this model.