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Jim Fowler

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
235 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

And thank goodness we didn't get bought then because we got bought for a lot more money a year and a half later.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

But the point I'm really making is that you just have to approach it that way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

Luckily for us, we, um, once we got the offer, then we went out and listened to other, you know, said, Hey, we've got this offer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

Is anyone, cause we were in neither situation where we, you know, actively out there trying to sell the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

We were approached both times.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

Um, and, uh, was it an email?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

We had had a long-term relationship.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

In fact, my COO really had a great relationship with Salesforce, and he had a huge hand in doing that deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

They were already a partner of ours and all of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

So they were very familiar.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

And again, like I said, back in 2008, they took a really close look at us, but that was before they decided to really start acquiring.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

The most useful was Jim Collins' Good to Great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

That's an action Bible, but my favorite from an interest perspective was certainly The Innovator's Dilemma.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Art of Selling Your Company

Well, this is easy for me.