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Daniel Wickberg

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
139 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

And I realized that, you know, back then, most of the software tools didn't

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

We're like really poor and most salespeople are not very tech savvy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

So that's kind of where I got the idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

$13 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

Uh, okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

So one year ago we were at, uh, 9.8.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

Uh, so we're growing the ARR at around, you know, between 30 and 35%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

Uh, and two or three years ago, that number was around 20.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

So we've kind of had a plan to accelerate the growth and it continues to accelerate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

So it's exciting times for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

Uh, a million dollar run rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

I mean, in MRR?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

Oh, $1 million in ARR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

I mean, I think, you know, I was 22 years old when I founded the business, so, you know,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

The first years, a lot of the stuff we were doing, we were just experimenting and trying to figure out how to run a business, SaaS or any kind of business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

And I think the early days, we never raised any capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

So our first 10 years were like,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

Barely breaking even, struggling to pay the bills every month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

So we used to do a lot of customized consulting stuff for our clients.