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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

No, we didn't change their structure.

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 you want to know, so there's obviously the interest rates.

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, in our case, you know, when we did the deal, the initial interest rate was high because we didn't have evidence of profitability.

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 we were not going to go get the deal from a, from a quote, normal bank.

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 specifics.

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 like over 10%.

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

Okay.

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, and we had a five year term and, um, fortunately we had like a, the, it was interest only for a while and then eventually went into principal.

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 in our case, 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

the things that we were looking at was like the interest, it was okay to spend that, the money on interest because we were thinking like, what would the value of the company be in the future?

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 like, you're kind of taking a bet.

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

Will we be worth more than 11% a year?

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, and then the, there's always going to be covenants.

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 you want to look at how the covenants are going to restrict how you run 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

And so, um, things to look out for are like minimum revenue requirements, um, the amount of cash you have on hand to pay for the debt payments, 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

trailing EBITDA and leverage ratio.

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 leverage ratio is the amount of debt you have to the amount of EBITDA you have.

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

EBITDA or top line ARR?

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

EBITDA.

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

EBITDA, okay.