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JD Graffam

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
168 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

The thing I like about Curated is that it came from a founder who...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

Sort of ran it himself and it was running on one developer's time and less than one developer's time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

And he had taken a job working for Litmus and Litmus had bought it from him and they were still running it with one, one and a half people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

Well, those people didn't need to come with the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

Litmus wanted to hold on to them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

Yeah, Litmus, the email company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

Email software, yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

They do email management or email testing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

So Litmus had bought the product and wanted to make sure that it went to someone who would take good care of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

The founder went to Litmus and wanted to make sure that the product was taken care of, but nobody was coming along with the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

And so we took that over in the last year and have done really well with it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

Yeah, he sold it to Litmus and was going to work on it for Litmus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

He did stay with Litmus, but Litmus decided that it wasn't the strategic fit that they thought it was going to be.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

And what they wanted to do was take good care of the customers because it had a bunch of really... How many customers did it have?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

hundreds, not thousands, smaller app, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

Well, a friend of mine in the industry, Natalie Negley, who runs Wildbit with her husband, they own and operate Postmark, which is another

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

Transactional, another email company, a transactional email company, as well as a couple other apps.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

So they run multiple SaaS apps, used to be an agency.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

Natalie and I knew each other because she hired Garrett Diamond.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
871 Which is Smarter: Buying vs Starting Companies

Garrett is the guy that sold Sifter to me.