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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 think we were just shy of 9 million.

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

We're on track to 13, 14 this year.

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

We're about 80 folks.

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

We have offices in Boston and Oakland, California.

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

And so teams have been growing pretty steadily.

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

We've actually been an Inc.

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

5000 company for the last three years running.

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

So I'm pretty excited about that.

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

Yeah, the business has been cash flow positive for a number of years.

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

In terms of the margins, you know, it really depends on a per project basis.

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

I mean, we put a lot of our margins and our capital back into the business to fund our growth.

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

And so it's pretty frequent for us to hire ahead in terms of new initiatives and things like that.

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

But the company's been profitable every year since I started it when I was taking zero salary through to today.

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

So I try to be fair to myself.

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

You know, that's paying yourself as a CEO is always a challenge.

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

I'm not quite at the, you know, pay myself a dollar like some billion dollar companies.

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

But I also recognize that my compensation is certainly tied on into the success of the company.

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

I certainly pay myself a reasonable salary, but I also think about dividends and how we use the revenue and the value of the company to feel that I'm compensated and growing as well.

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

I cut you off.