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Dave Bell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
158 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

So we've, we've added, uh, we've added a lot of new customers, but a lot of, uh, a lot of folks, uh, have also been adding apps.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

So like,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

When you work with game publishers, for example, they have an entire portfolio and you kind of will land one and then have good results and other product managers will come to you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

So there's been some land and expand, but there's also a lot of business development that goes on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

I mean, we have a lot of great inbound.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

We have a great business development team that we built.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

No, we bootstrapped the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

So this is my third mobile startup, fourth mobile startup, actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

My last one, I was a co-founder of Playphone where we raised $60 or $70 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

This one, we decided that we were going to, you know, we already had a lot of great relationships and a lot of great developers that we knew.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

So we built the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

We did a lot of the data aggregation machine learning in the first few years, completely bootstrapped it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

And then, you know, we funded the rest with revenue from our customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

Yeah, absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

Well, you know, you have to look at churn in a few different ways when you're in a business like ours, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

where you have smart developers sign up, but they really want kind of a balanced approach to their ASO and they want the best technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

You've got startups and then you've got enterprise, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

And so again, I'm not going to reveal our exact churn rate, but one of the things that we do to really

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

have the best experience and results for our customers is that we put a lot of service into it.