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Chris Aranzio

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
125 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

So it was kind of like they took a flyer and they get the reward for that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

Yeah, it was like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

So interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

So so it's kind of creative, but so is everything we do, I guess.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

So at the time, we didn't really have many options for regular debt.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

So I was looking at the revenue-based lending and what I could get from them as a multiple of our trailing 90 days MRR and the convertible debt I could get a lot more of.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

And it was also a few close contacts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

So it was kind of like these had been advisors that helped on the business and they wanted to come in and be a part of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

Yeah, absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

I think I think, yeah, that's a great view.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

If you've got a marketing vehicle that's working like we do, I think that's a absolutely a good option.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

It'd have to be more, I would say.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

Yeah, because it depends on the debt structure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

If you're only taking a few months of ad spend, then a few months you blow through it and now you've got some multiple of that debt or at least some fraction of the debt that you've got to pay back and you're servicing debt, it doesn't keep working for you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

So I feel like it would have to be a longer term amount of money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

I would say if the interest rate was low enough and you can model it where our payback period is called four months today, if I can bring in all those customers with some accelerated ad spend and have new cash flow to service that debt over the next window of time, it could make sense.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

It would just depend on the structure.