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Chris Brisson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
565 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

They were kind of silent, I would say, for maybe a year and a half, two years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

So for them, it was, you know, it was a nice a nice payday for those guys.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

to exit the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

They just weren't hands-on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

And so, yeah, so it's myself and two investors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

So two previous investors from

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

Now those investors came basically 2011, I believe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

So really when we launched the product a couple of months, a couple of months after that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

Um, you know, at the time I knew nothing about financing, so I,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

Said, oh, you know, we can do a convertible note.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

And the investors that I brought on, you know, we just didn't know or they didn't know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

They didn't want to do debt.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

So we ended up doing an equity round in the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

And what was the how much did they put in?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

1.25 valuation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

So I think it's seven and a half percent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

Good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's Making How Much from Text Message Marketing? EP 288: Chris Brisson

uh, Hey, I'm, you know, I'm busting my butt building this company.