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Erling Lind

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
156 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

And I guess we were seeing more traction in North America and also a huge market, of course, for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

So although we were able to successfully

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

sell to clients from Europe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

There is obviously a time zone issue here and the team was working longer and longer hours and I think we just needed to scale up that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

Got it, so it's a North American expansion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

I think we considered that, but I think coming from a bootstrap company where we originally didn't have any plans to raise anything, our plans was to continue bootstrapping, being an employee-owned company, making that sort of transition, we wanted to do it in a, I guess,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

stepwise way and that felt like the most sensible way forward for us and the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

That's what we wanted to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

That was what excited us to keep building the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

Yeah, I'm not sure we got that offer, but I think for us, we wanted to, we're not doing this only for the money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

We love building a company and love the learning journey as we grow and continue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

So I guess for us, that was the step we wanted to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

There are almost 40 now in five countries.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

I guess I started initially, but then Nikolai is the UX person, joined very soon after that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

And then Jonah, our CTO, who's London-based, joined

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

Maybe a year after that, and then Andreas has been the early salesperson that joined after that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

So that's kind of the four of us that we consider.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

No, I guess I... So I'm based in Oslo, Norway.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

On Monday, I'll be in London onboarding our new VPL sales there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Raised $3m at a $25m valuation, is that overpriced or just right?

But in August, I'm moving to Toronto, Canada with my family and going to be there for the next years to really expand the...