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Chris Savage

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
809 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

So we had to do right by them because of course they want us to sell because that was going to be a great return.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

I can't say exactly, but I'll say, you know, I, what I will say is that when we raised, it was a different time and a harder to get a higher value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

So they, they own more than I would want them to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

Yeah, sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

They were in that range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

That's exactly right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

And it's because when we raised our first round, our MRR was literally $1,000 or like $1,500.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

So it was like we were very...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

And there was a lot of risk in the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

I mean, I give credit to our angels.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

If I saw a business that was just doing $1,500 in MRR and it was like the stage, I don't know that I'd be able to make the investment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

So I give them tons of credit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

But yes, it meant that they owned a material enough amount that their shares also were preferred shares.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

And so it meant that they had rights to a board seat.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

They could block a sale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

We tried to set ourselves up because we assumed we were going to raise venture money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

So we tried to make the terms pretty venture-y so that if we did, the venture capitalists would come in and be like, oh, these seem like fair terms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

We'd hope that they would like be closer to aligning with that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

It was a priced round.