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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

I always assumed that people said profit was bad and profit was short-term.

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's just been interesting because it's been the opposite.

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, a lot more.

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, so I could say 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

Are you over 50,000?

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, yes.

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

Uh, and I would say, and I would also say like the, the revenue is really strong.

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, we are more than double where we were then, which is awesome.

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, we're right past there.

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 great.

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, I think that it is totally doable.

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 I feel like I look at a lot of, actually, I take inspiration from

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

companies like Mailchimp that have done it without any funding, but I also take inspiration from companies.

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 feel like a lot of the direct-to-consumer companies are showing us what's possible.

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 you can find the people who really care about what you're doing, and you can figure out how to finance the business through customers, through cash flow, it is possible to do.

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's also just people underestimate focus, man.

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 were doing so many different things like searching for growth.

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 then the second we focused on our product, we focused on the experience because we had 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

Guess what?

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

All those things got better and then move the needle.