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Dinesh Kandanchatha

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
148 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

We really, that was an interesting business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

We had to pivot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

We had a successful business around 10 million that the founders had before and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

I joined and, you know, they decided to run that, turn that business off.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

And because they, it was, it was highly, it was in a very litigious space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

So they had to completely pivot the business while their revenue was shrinking by, you know, 30, 40% a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

And so it, it coming in and then working with,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

the founders and then um building out a sales and marketing organization and then taking the revenue to basically zero and then growing it all the way back up to 80 million dollars in software as a service um just through you know uh arr 80 million a year in annual revenue um uh monthly revenue rather um sorry sorry 80 million you did 80 million a month or annual so that 80 million is the annual recurring revenue yeah okay so we'll divide by 12 to get mr

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

to get MRR, that's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

So it was subscription business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

And that we did in six years, which is a pretty fast, it was pretty fast paced, the results of a great team, a great product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

I had a fair, not, I mean, in a couple of percent range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

Is it like three, four, five percent?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

It's significant.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

So it was enough to set me up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

And then since then, I've been, you know, doing, I'd always been doing some investing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

I've done a lot of real estate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments

I'm also currently โ€“ I'm part of another services company called Macadamian Technologies.