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David Hauser

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
286 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

That's how the CPAs work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

Because if you look at it on a pure CPA basis, you're like, I'll never do this, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

That's how this works.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

And you have to do it in this process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

Most people who fail at this skip the testing thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

And they're like, I ran Austin and it didn't work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

Well, yeah, because it's not a big enough test.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

The saturation wasn't right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

And it's not a large enough DMA.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

So they give up on radio rather than actually do it the right way and figure it out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

But it's a great question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

Yeah, so there's three parts there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

So the least valuable from an acquisition standpoint is cost savings, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

I buy this company, I get cost savings, least valuable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

The next kind of down that line is I buy this company to speed up my market development, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

And then the most valuable is I increase my top line or my bottom line together, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

But it's about top line.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

Can I sell more of what you have to my customers or what I have to your customers?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

That's the most valuable.