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Greg Raiz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
166 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

I was making, I want to say $60,000, $80,000 at the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

That was my first job out of college.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

I was 23, something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

And how old are you now?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

I'm turning 40.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

I'm 39.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

So I'm still on the cusp.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

Oh, it was embarrassing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

I definitely lost money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

I think, I think we made like 15 K or, or 15, 20 K. I mean, I was really living off my savings, uh, and trying to figure out exactly what we would do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

And I was building a little bits of software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

I was, uh, building kind of recurring revenue and some of our own products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

Uh, but really figuring out how do you, how do you bootstrap a business?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

How do you start it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

We've never taken funding, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

And we've tried to really figure out how do you build things the right way, quote unquote, you know, the hard way, rolling up your sleeves, but making software better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

There's so much kind of poorly engineered, poorly designed software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz

We really wanted to rethink that entire process.