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Clate Mask

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
407 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

And so when the company is growing and not having to go raise more capital to dilute the equity of the shareholders, that's a good thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

And I was going to say, and that creates a certain amount of patience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

Now, it's not infinite patience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

Obviously, you have to create a liquidity opportunity for them at some point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

But the reason why you've seen us not raise capital and not go public is because we don't have to raise capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

So we're always talking about different.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

I mean, there's always different things in the works in terms of opportunities to acquire in about one out of 50 workouts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

First of all, it's Terry, who's our chief operating officer, not Keith, who's the chief revenue officer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

So what they were probably the wires got crossed a little bit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

What they're probably saying is Terry, as the chief operating officer, is really driving the day to day of the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

And that's absolutely true.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

A year ago, I took my role and I broke it into two pieces and I took the public.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

I took the more public facing part of CEO and gave him the more internal part of it as CEO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

But Terry and I are on the same page.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

We work together constantly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

Terry is a fantastic leader who knows how to drive business, small business software companies at scale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

And I love what we're doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

I couldn't be more excited about it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

So, no, I'm very involved.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

I'm sitting here in my office at Infusionsoft talking to you.