Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Gerard Adams

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
132 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

I believe that deal, thinking back, was around 20,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

We were doing at that time... Just 2012, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

I think we were doing about 40 million unique visitors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

Well, at the time that we sold, we were at 80 million unique visitors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

No, I don't believe so.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

Believe it or not, it's with algorithms and things that have changed, I think that we're still pretty close to around where we were.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

About 80?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

So there was, uh, you know, honestly, we owe it all to everybody on the team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

Um, you know, at the time we're now over 200 employees at the time of the sale was about 65 employees.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

Um, three of us co-founded it together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

Myself, David Arab of, um, who was 19 at the time where, you know, it was like an apprentice of mine when we first started now, you know, became CEO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

Um, I backed the idea, um, and became the president of the company initially.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

Then Jonathan San Pedro was the COO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

I did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

We bootstrapped it, but it was my, my capital initially.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

And then we, um, we kind of bootstrapped it with another incubator that came in after about six months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

We started proving the concept.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
0 to 80m Monthly Unique Website Views and Millions in Revenue by 31 with Gerard Adams of Elite Daily EP 228

The total capital like bootstrapped was around 60,000.