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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 then after a few years, you know, being the backseat driver is really hard when you founded the business.

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

So I decided to, you know, I want to...

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

I want to push more for growth and be more aggressive, but I don't want to be in the backseat anymore.

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

So yeah, we're very happy with that decision.

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!

I mean, today it would translate into like 34 because of the dollar rate, but yeah, something like that.

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

So, yeah, 2019, we had, I think, five and a half, six million dollars in revenue.

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

So, I mean, the story about that, we had plenty of discussions with a couple of private equity firms and other players.

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

But all of them...

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

You know, the valuation was okay.

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

And we felt that some of them could really contribute to the business.

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

But I think I would have felt kind of, you know, working with my hands tied behind my back.

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

So going public and, you know, I'm still the majority shareholder, turned out to be like the easiest way to continue running the business the way I want to do it.

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

So, yeah, it was...

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

We're very happy with that decision.

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

So Nasdaq in Sweden has this one of the kind of smaller Nasdaq list.

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

It's called First North.

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

We're around 80 people today.

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

So the product team is a total of 30 people.

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

Not all of them are engineers.