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Finn Kelly

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
148 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

My wife and I are co-founders in most of the businesses we do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

We originally started off with a private wealth management firm where we're advising really high net wealth, like older generation on how to exit their businesses, how to structure for tax reason, then actually manage the money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

And I managed a couple hundred million during that period of time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

And then

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

We also sold that now, and we also had an insurance.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

It gets valued on recurring revenue and a multiple of EBIT model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

It's very sad because it's such a good business model because people don't leave you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

No, it's actually not because if you create a good business model, then people are happy with the processes and they end up staying in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

But it's very important when you sell the business on who do you sell to as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

And what did you sell that business for?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

So we sold that for...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

Multiple million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

Not in the eight figures, but in the seven figures.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

It was sort of around at the same time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

So this concept has been building for a while.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

And last year we launched with sort of proof of concept, just a brand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

And then we've been building it out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
What if An Accounting Firm Was Built Specifically For Young Entrepreneurs? EP 285: Finn Kelly

And now we're about to scale.