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David Rusenko

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
265 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

Like here, just take some money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

Like I love your product so much.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

Just have some money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

You know what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

Like if we were smarter, we would have kept the checks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

I think at the time we actually did need the money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

Yeah, so we skipped out of school.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

I say we skipped out of school because we all ended up graduating after the fact, but we had a semester left, and I drove out from Penn State to San Francisco.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

This was early January.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

I drove 80.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

It turns out I would not recommend driving 80 in January.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

I got stuck in Wyoming for about three days, but made it through with all the servers intact in my car, made it out here to San Francisco, participated in the Y Combinator program,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

Um, that April, uh, kind of a, kind of a fun, I suppose, if you want to call it that milestone, we, we, at one point we're left with less than a hundred dollars in our bank account.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

We just paid rent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

We just done.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

How many, how many, how many people were on your team at that point?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

Uh, just the three pounders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

Um, and so, um, but, but so we had food for a couple of weeks and we had rent due like in another two to three weeks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo

So we basically only had a couple of weeks left and