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Jeff Seibert

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
234 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

That's amazing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

So yeah, huge props to box and Aaron for doing that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

Um, and ended up, of course, the side project game steam got more interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

Um, and so ended up giving box of many months of notice, had a smooth transition out and then started working on cross ethics full time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

Aaron did join as an advisor after the seed round, which was great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

But yeah, we ended up, because we're in Boston, we wanted to really raise from the local ecosystem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

And so we got a group of 10 Boston Angels to seed it, which was fantastic, as well as a local firm there called Flybridge Capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

It was, yeah, we raised one on five.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

That's exactly it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

Oh, okay, good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

That's great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

And so, yeah, that worked well, of course, again, in today's language, like crazy different world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

But we were very happy with it and we ended up building the team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

And then it was a very quick story, basically 14 months from launch to being acquired by Twitter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

Oh, man.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

Ancient history.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

I think around 18 or so.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

We had zero revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

The product was free.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

Of course, of course.