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Hank Leber

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
228 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down

I had no money when I started the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down

So we had a really fast run.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down

We found that what we were doing with automation on social was really helping drive web traffic for small businesses and early stage companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down

A lot of likes, favorites, follows, retweets, comments, mostly on Twitter, but it could work on like Pinterest and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down

tumblr but twitter was really working well for us and you know we're charging a thousand dollars a month for the service uh we were bringing really high quality traffic to our clients and customers and uh the growth is really happening rapidly like you mentioned we got to a

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down

May 29th, 2015, I believe it was, we lost all of our Twitter accounts that we were running.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down

It was thousands at the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down

So... Oh, that's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down

It was 2016.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down

We've had a whole other year since then, 2017.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down

It's been a blur.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down

So May 29th, 2016, we literally had zeros across our dashboard on the back end looking at all the accounts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down

And I thought...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down

man, something must be wrong with the dashboard because there's just no way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down

There's just no way we could have lost thousands of accounts overnight.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down

And it turns out we did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down

They were all suspended and it took us a few weeks to figure out why.

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