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David DeYoung

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
107 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

20s now in terms of clients okay um we started indeed a couple of years ago but what is interesting is that the company might might exist for about four years and a half now but we kind of pivoted halfway so we we started the business focusing on cross device as well but with a more uh service oriented uh a campaign oriented business model where we were selling to agencies and brands

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

And we pivoted towards a business model where we are servicing SaaS companies and technology companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

It's it's.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

Uh, we, we, I am calculating.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

I want to give you a good number.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

Um, it's about two thirds of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

We have some legacy companies still in the, some legacy clients from the early days.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

We were doing about a 40% less, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

Uh, we did grow pretty, pretty good over the year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

Uh, but we also had some struggles during last year, uh, where, uh, one of our companies filed for bankruptcy, which led us, uh, basically that, well, that was a pretty big disappointment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

No, uh, they did about 10% of them at that time revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

You know, we were expecting of course that revenue during the year and we were already investing on top of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

And then, uh, you know, once of a sudden they, they, they fade away and they take a big loss in, in unpaid bills.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

And of course all the future revenue is not coming as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

So that's a, that's a loss in, uh, in our, for, for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

Sorry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1058 How Screen 6 his $3.5m in ARR on $600k Raised

uh and then also what is happening in our industry and that's something that happens all the time in ad tech or marketing technology consolidation between companies so we might have two clients today but you know if one buys the other then you're left with one client and they're obviously not going to pay the the sum of uh that that was the previous amount paid because of the sas model