Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Jessica Rovello

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
198 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

Truth of the matter is, it's like you don't always know what's going on inside a business and people don't write about the 99% that aren't necessarily having that success.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

And that success, from what I've found, can be very shallow and it can be very fleeting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

Top line revenue does not equal a healthy, profitable, thriving, sustainable business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

I am ready.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

No.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

So we are quite simply a games company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

So we make games and we either license them to brands or we deliver them directly to consumers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

And those consumers either pay us for them through things like the App Store or they are monetized through advertising.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

2001.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

So it's been quite a long time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

Is it a trend?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

Oh my goodness.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

Oh, it was zero.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

I mean, we didn't have revenue for the first three years, I would say.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

First two to three years, no revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

And then when- Probably in the third or fourth year that we actually started making revenue and then it scaled fairly quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

Probably the first year that we had revenue, we probably did about 600,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

Okay.

โ† Previous Page 1 of 10 Next โ†’