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Eric Frankel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
389 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

Are you available to walk me through how this works tomorrow?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

And then hopefully the next one is, Hey, we want to sign up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

And then we go from dozens of clients to hundreds to thousands.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

No, we're talking about literally a couple, two.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

Two million in 2017, half of that in 2016, half of that in 2015.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

And I'm hoping that we'll do more than double 2017's revenue in 2018.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

We already have most of 2017's revenue already booked.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

100% the last couple of years in a row.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

Raised $10 million from smart industry leaders and myself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

Well, I don't have that much capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

I was the former president of Warner Brothers Television Distribution and spent 20 some odd years there and did quite well, but needed more money than I had in case I was wrong so that my children could still go to college.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

And my wife and I could still go to dinner.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

So, you know, I put in about two million bucks and we raised another eight million from some terrific, smart, well-known executives from around the U.S.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

So that's not really what happened.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

I sat down with a stranger who's one of the leading entertainment lawyers in the world who turned to me and said, Eric, I may be the lawyer, too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

And I could name 15 huge executives and celebrities that you and all your listeners would be familiar with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

He said, but you know what I really like to do, Eric?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

I really like to invest in cool new businesses with people like you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

And he said, I'm in other friends and other friends and other friends.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?

The next thing we know, we attack.