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Greg Silverman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
133 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

Because the thing behind Battleship is there's a hundred million Battleship games in closets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

And they were trying to tap into that storyline

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

And when you started to look at the script, it probably wasn't deep enough into that B4, C3, you know, the game we've all played.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

And we could give them some feedback that said, you may not make your box office the way you're intending.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

We were very accurate when it came out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

We predicted around 75 million for North America and that's what it was.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

I can't disclose that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

Yeah, I'm surprised that they don't do more simulation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

Think about it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

If you have a $500 million fund and you're picking 10 winners, you should be estimating, one, how good the market is going to be or how good they'll be in that market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

And also, how you optimize the investments you make in them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

Yeah, well, Greg, this is what I'm saying.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

Well, you know, it took a while to get the system to work and make it production ready.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

So we were kind of a technology-inspired consultancy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

And then three years ago, we pivoted to software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

Now we're experiencing that kind of triple-digit growth that you would expect.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

And, you know, sometimes science just takes a while.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

We've bootstrapped, and then we did a round with a group called Launchpad Ventures, which was a Series A. Okay, and how much is that for?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1100 Why aren't more private equity firms paying him $12k/seat?

They're pretty large.