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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?!

And so that's really where they turn to us and we provide them with kind of a turnkey gaming solution that they put in their game section of their digital property.

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

2018, we were in the $15 million, just around 15.

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

Yep.

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

You know, I would say...

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

that it was something that took place over time.

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

And I think it was something, again, nothing's ever like black and white.

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

There's nuance to every kind of decision that you make as a business person, as an entrepreneur.

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

So I think two things were happening.

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

I think one, we noticed in us having been through a real existential crisis in our business that involved a political situation.

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

We had engineers based in Ukraine.

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

We had to move them

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

due to kind of the political crisis that was going on there.

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

And so in facing that existential crisis as the business, and that was really kind of like a time of reflection, we realized that, like, we're not done building this company.

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

We don't feel like we've hit the...

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

the point of success that we know that we are capable of achieving.

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

And we love the journey that we're on in building this business.

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

So that was kind of point number one, just coming to that realization.

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

I think point number two was just always kind of going in eyes wide open and understanding that when you take investment,

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

your investors expect a return.

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

And if you have not necessarily been upfront with them about your thinking that, and because at the time we didn't even know it in ourselves, this is something we may want to do for the next 20 years.