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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

I mean, we've been an SVB customer for like nearly a decade.

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

So kind of we'd had debt facilities with them before as well, kind of that we've always kind of maintained just to have an insurance policy.

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

So kind of they were our first choice.

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

We went through kind of to a couple of other providers as well and kind of eventually came back to SVB with people that we knew and yeah.

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

I would be reluctant to put a percentage on it because I just don't know how some of these things are going to go.

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

But I think there is a question that in three years' time, what is SaaS?

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

Are we still calling it SaaS?

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

Is it recurring revenue?

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

Are we going more towards usage-based or microtransaction pricing, whether it's on the B2C or B2B side?

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

So I think there are all of these questions that are sub-questions of that.

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 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

There's a very natural progression for us, I think, from B2C software to B2B software to usage-based pricing to on the consumer side, games have recurring revenue, but do they have subscription revenue?

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

They probably don't have subscription revenue, but if you're thinking about Fortnite or something like this, they certainly have recurring revenue of repeat purchase.

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 the constant along a lot of these businesses is going to be

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

Is this transaction truly digital?

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 step for us between, do we do this for SaaS business and do we do it for a game, is fairly short versus the step of, do you do it for SaaS business versus do you do it for Glossier?

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

Or one of these D2C e-commerce people, that's a pretty big gap.

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

So I think as we continue to grow, like the breadth of these things will kind of expand within digital and software and kind of software adjacent.

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

But I think that our definition of what is consumer software and kind of things like that is probably going to evolve over that same period of time as well.

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