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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?!

We've always done somewhere between, I would say 10 and 20% EBITDA margins.

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

I mean, it's pretty good.

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

High growth years, maybe a little bit less.

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

Um, but you know, that's what we always aim to be at.

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

We were maybe cashflow negative a couple of quarters.

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

Um,

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

at most I would say one calendar year, but never more than that.

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

It was in creating new product for the most part.

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

So, um, so we were, um, working on games that took longer to make that had larger teams that took longer to get to market.

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

Um, that was, that was primarily where the investment went.

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

And then, um,

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?!

And then marketing.

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

Oh boy.

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

So as of today, we probably have, we're right around the hundred range, anywhere from 98 to 101, depending on no time of year.

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

We have about 40 engineers.

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

Sales, marketing, people innovation, which is what we call our HR function.

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

We have quality assurance.

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

For sales?

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

Yeah.