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Chris Mack

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
119 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

So we've slowed down on new feature development.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

Like I said, we did try, that was our initial vision, you know, and, and, uh, you know, we have that discussion all day long as to whether we failed or should have tried harder or should have tried a bunch of different things, but that was our initial vision.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

And we tried that and we reached a certain level of growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

Um, you know, we were doing pretty well, but we were also seeing a very high level of churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

And, uh, and so overall what we were seeing is, is, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

you know, really, really working very, very hard for, at the end of the day, what didn't amount to be a whole lot more than what we have now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

And now everything's a bit more relaxed and everything's a bit more chilled.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

So it's, it's, you know, it goes back to what you, you clearly said, you know, just a few minutes ago, it is a, a definitely a lifestyle design choice.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

We were doing pretty well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

I mean, again, I'm like,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

I'm not sure there's a whole lot of point in discussing exact numbers, but we, you know, we were doing, yeah, high five figures.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

I mean, people can sense whatever they'd like to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

I mean, it's still not going to change how I decide to communicate about my company, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

So, I mean, I understand what you're saying.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

I don't think it really changes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

And this is maybe something that you might be right about and something I have to reflect on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

And I made the decision to be totally honest with the numbers at some point in the future.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

It's definitely been something that I've been thinking about.