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Chris Hall

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

So what we're trying to remove is that barrier of a, of a long implementation period.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

Um, and we're trying to automate that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

So we can't really compare that, that first initial usage, um, with our flagship product because it's a different, it's a different product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

Uh, we have 450 plus clients right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

Maybe I got some wrong numbers there, but no, we're, we passed the sort of the 10 million AR mark last year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

And that would be like, that'd be like 880 grand a month, something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

So we passed the 20 million as well this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

So we're a little over that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

Yeah, so we started in 2013 and it really was sort of a spinoff of a development agency I started with a couple of friends of mine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

And that was back in 2008, just the three of us at the kitchen table.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

And this was sort of a tool we started developing to help ourselves scratching our own itch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

We got a lot of customers and it was always a hassle to get the files, the right files and the right version to them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

And that was 2013 when we actually incorporated that as a separate company, sort of as a little sister.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

And well, that was back in 2013.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

So that, well, a couple of years along and some pretty spectacular growth, I guess.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

So we were bootstrapped until then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

Um, and last year, uh, August, we did our first round of funding with, uh, uh, insight venture capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

I'm sorry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP

Insight venture.