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Joe Coleman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
225 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

It's actually one of the things that we're super proud of at Contently is if you look at the space more broadly, we're neck and neck with a lot of our competition that has raised $90 million, $60 million, $40 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

And my background as an entrepreneur, the two companies that built before this were all bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

And so I just have a completely different way of thinking about things, I think, than

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

a lot of entrepreneurs that have only worked in businesses that were capitalized through venture capital or some other sort of mechanism.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

And so we've always been very efficient.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

We've always been very, very lean.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

And it's awesome because now we're looking at a business that's growing quickly and we're going to be in a position to take on more capital if we want.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

We're also... Hold on, Joe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

Where were we a year ago on the SaaS side?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

That's a good... I would assume that we were around 1.2 probably.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

Maybe 1.1, something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

So...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

At this scale, you know, you try to be above a 40% annual growth rate is kind of the benchmark that you want to hit is continue keeping up the 40% growth rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

Last year, we were a little bit behind that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

We had a lot of rebuilding that to do last year with respect to the exec team and so forth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

And then this year is sort of looking much better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

Team size wise, we're just over 100.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

Most are based in New York.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

We have a sales team out in San Francisco.