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?!

It's a, it is a goal structure.

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

I would say one, two, three, four.

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

We have three who only do sales and then we have an additional four account managers who also do sales.

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

Yep, that's still the product.

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

I mean, it is a mix between distributing our games through large brands and publishers and distributing them direct to consumer.

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

But the revenue comes from either via somebody else's website or via our own website, people playing games.

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?!

Yeah.

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

I mean, that's not something that we do, but that's something that definitely exists in the market.

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

I think that that's something that

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

we'll see what the lifespan of that type of gamified data collection is based on how privacy is trending in the United States and certainly abroad.

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

That becomes a more and more difficult thing to be able to monetize.

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

So for CNN or for more specifically for somebody like the Washington Post, for example, we they all have, you know, in the physical papers that have been around some for hundreds of years.

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

Right.

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

They always had a crossword section.

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

And I'm sure you can picture it in your mind or a Sudoku or a word jumble or something like that.

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

We basically took that concept and brought it into digital in the early 2000s.

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

So a lot of these large news publications, whether it be a CNN or a LA Times or Washington Post, it's something that their readers are used to doing in print or have traditionally done in print.

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

They're not going to create a game studio in-house, right?

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

They don't have the desire to do that and they don't have the expertise to do that.