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Christian Owens

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299 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

It would have been irresponsible for us to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

The thing is, you think that the thing is with this type of transaction as well is whether we could have done it without raising money or not, it's sort of like

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

irrelevant to would we have done it without racing?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

And I think kind of one of the, one of the things like with this is sort of like our, like our ambition level of beach company individually was already high.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

I think the ambition level of the combined company is even higher.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

Yeah, and it's sort of like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

Probably 12, but sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

Yeah, and that's kind of like the rationale for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

And it sort of, so it becomes like a question of like, could we have done this?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

Maybe, maybe not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

Like, would we have done it if we hadn't had like sort of tens and tens of millions of dollars after the transaction in order to be able to go and deploy together in order to be able to kind of create something to like realize the potential of something being greater than the sum of its parts?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

Sort of probably not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

A portion of it was debt.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

It was vast majority cash.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

I actually think the number, if you include, we rounded it to a whole number, but the actual number, including the debt, was pretty substantially north of 200 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

Under $300 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

Yeah.