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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

These were roughly the terms.

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

I think it was actually $12.5 million.

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

interest so it wasn't cheap but there was no warrants no equity so we retained a hundred percent and they allowed us to spend without covenants assuming that our underlying metrics stay the same so there was no drawdown covenants or anything like that we could spend the full amount that we had from them which was about 15 million dollars we spent 12 of it in those first periods when we got there

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

So obviously, I just said that this is why I really appreciate what Nathan's doing.

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

I think there's a big gap in the market for that one to $10 million company to be able to access debt, right?

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

And I would encourage everyone to think very deeply about, you know, how can you utilize debt properly?

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

And my number one takeaway on that is only use it for things you know are working, marketing channels you know are working.

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

It's not for testing.

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

It's not for hiring.

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

It's not for growing product.

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

It's none of those things.

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

It is, I know that if I spend a dollar here, I get $2 back and I need to spend more of those dollars, right?

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

That's how you accelerate growth with debt.

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

So yes, we sold the company for a lot of money.

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

I don't know what else to say there.

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

I have to say that I think there was definitely a timing and luck factor to that.

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

We built a great company, but someone way overpaid for it, Citrix.

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

And they've done very well now, right?

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

So I think the company will do $85 million this year and definitely will hit their $100 million target, which was part of the metric that they decided on before they bought things.

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

But they overpaid at the time.