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David Hauser

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
286 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

So from one to $10 million in revenue, you can have a lot of doers on the team.

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

which means, hey, do this, come back, do this, come back.

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

To get from 10 to 20, you need a lot of thinkers, which is people that come to you and say, David, here's what I'm gonna do and here's why I'm gonna do it and I'll come back to you when it's done, right?

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

So those were those changes that happened there.

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

Also, the biggest changes that really happened through these periods, paid advertising.

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

Each of these periods, we found a new marketing channel and put more and more money into it.

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

Plain and simple.

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

Right.

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

Like people want to stand up here and give you complex things.

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

We paid more marketing dollars.

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

We grew more profitably continuously.

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

Right.

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

And the later years we spent twelve and a half million dollars on radio.

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

Right.

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

So those take a lot of tests to get there.

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

So how did we do that and spend $12 million on radio?

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

In the later years, we took on some debt, right?

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

And this is one of the reasons that I really love what Nathan's doing here with Founder Path and being able to get people access to this.

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

We used SVB because there were very few options at the time for us.

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

We were also at a revenue kind of point that they allowed for that.