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Don Simpson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
157 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

And that business we ran for, you know, almost 30 years and have been running for almost 30 years and it's still

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

in existence today, but this technology business, this Lyft AI is a new product company that we launched.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

Oh, 2019.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

I'm not sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

You know, we, we, we peaked at about 10 million in revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

And I would think that would be 2018, maybe 2019.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

I know they're separate companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

Oh, there's a change and transfer of IP and so forth as a result.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

Well, we took economically...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

Um, because I, I owned, I started MarketLink and so I own MarketLink.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

So for me to go and take and separate these two is really relatively strict.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

Oh, got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

It's not like you have partners.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

I bootstrapped that business just that I started just out of university.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

And now I've been bootstrapping Lyft AI.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

So it's just, it's just me negotiating with me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

How am I going to set this up to move forward?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped

It makes it a little simpler.