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Dominic Edmonds

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
189 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

So we would be doing around five million a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

So I've stepped away from that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

That business has gone from strength to strength.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

The interesting thing is the shareholders in that agency are the same shareholders I have in sales cycle, which means my relationship with them has continued.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

But there's certainly a 12-month transition period where I was wearing both hats.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

I think we're the definition of bootstrapped, certainly in terms of US terms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

So we raised ยฃ80,000 of investment to build this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

No institutional money to date.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

Our team size in the US is 35, but globally 180.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

So offices currently, we still have our headquarters based out the northeast of England.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

We then have one in downtown Paris, and we've got one in Singapore together with here in the U.S.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

In terms of what they do, I suppose we split the business into regions, as you might expect.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

So we have the Americas office based here in the U.S.,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

which allows us to win customers, manage those customers, support them, implement them locally.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

We do exactly the same thing in Paris, exactly the same thing in Singapore, exactly the same thing in the UK.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

However, we also have a central division, as it's referred to, which is core technology functions, finance roles like myself, strategic roles, which effectively all of the regions benefit from.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

It's just me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

My wife, the cats, the children.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1237 Why He Gave Up $5m Agency for Customer Data SaaS Play

Realistically, though, I can speak to myself because they have a strong track record themselves of entrepreneurship and investment and seeing journeys like this through to multiple points of exit.