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Christopher Reid

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
167 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

I see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

Working with private equity firms who have to... Working with the money side is not necessarily easy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

So it's like you can kind of break the time up into... We continued to grow the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

It was going well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

than a period where it looked like, you know, it wasn't going to be what we thought it would be.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

And then a period of executing the buyout that, you know, those three things took time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

And that's, that's how you get to three years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

So I'm, I'm speaking primarily about negotiating with the PE firm who, who largely controlled us taking it back, not us raising money from private.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

I'm talking about the, the PE firm that backed rebellion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

You have to negotiate both with the choir and with, um, the PE firm who, who, you know, has a lot of say over what, what they do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

So we charge publishers, um, in sort of two models, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

One model is sort of a SAS style tonnage fee.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

which is on a CPM basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

And then the other, the other way we charge is on a rev share.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

That's how we make money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers

Yeah.