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Craig Hewitt

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
222 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

I'm sure Einar talked about that when he was on it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

And we didn't have kind of too many questions there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

And, you know, we signed up there and they took a percentage of equity in return for that investment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

And with that, we hired our first marketer and kind of took one of our engineers full time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

That's what we used a lot of the money for, I think.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

The first cohort was a little different than the second and probably subsequent ones in that a lot of companies, the first cohort kind of weren't to profitability and didn't have a good degree of product market fit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

We did, I think.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

It was probably around the time I was on the show.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Last is we were paying my salary and everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

And so we were able to just take that money and invest it in growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

not in paying my salary and paying rent and things like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Paying dividends or no?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

No, no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

And we plan to reinvest in the company as long as I can, I guess.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Yeah, most all of it is just, you know, I'm not podcasting anymore.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

I can't do this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

It's too hard.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

I don't have time to talk to people and editing and things like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

And yeah, I mean, the professional services, when we get the right fit, helps reduce that a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

You know, I think you can probably attest that if you had to do all this yourself, you wouldn't do it.