Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Christian Owens

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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

So sort of, it was still, I was still kind of early on that curve and,

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

they really encouraged that stuff.

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

They didn't necessarily understand it, but they encouraged sort of like me to learn these things and experiment and sort of do that stuff.

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, yeah, I think just encouraging curiosity.

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

I wasn't very book smart as a kid.

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

I wasn't very, I wasn't a good student because I would get kind of distracted and bored.

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 was always more interested in sort of, oh, I can go and,

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

tinker around and build something on the computer than I was sort of paying attention in like a class.

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 that was sort of a, that was a constant like battle for them of like, okay, like do we encourage him to do more in school and do the homework and take away the internet privileges until it's done?

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

Or do we encourage the internet stuff?

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

Cause he seems to kind of really enjoy it.

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

So yeah,

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

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 mean, I'm not a parent.

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

I'm not going to pretend to tell people how to parent.

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's the thing that sort of sticks out in my mind is sort of encouraging that curiosity.

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 had a co-founder after the fact, like about a month and a half in.

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

So Harrison, who you might have met.

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

And I've worked with me.