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John O'Shull

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
322 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

Correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

And so if you look at the businesses, so the two business units, very, very different business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

We actually run them very separately.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

The enthusiast is a B2C play, right, where we have a big distribution channel as well as direct and e-commerce, etc.,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

But it's primarily a one-time sale, Nathan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

So we're trying to figure out ways to get that into the recurring world, but it is a one-time sale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

The enterprise, totally different, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

It's mainly software, and it's all SaaS-based, subscription-based, recurring revenue, et cetera.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

And so two very, very different business models.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

Just to give you an idea, the enterprise business, which is really the fast grower, grew first half of the year 43%, 44% year over year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

And then the enthusiast business grew about 30% year over year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

Now, the challenge is the enthusiast business grew.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

It's really growing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

20 and 21, I really turned the business around and grew it a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

The enthusiast business is probably more like an 8% to 10% top-line grower with a 30% to 35% EBITDA margin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

It's a very steady-eddy business that throws up a lot of cash, a lot of EBITDA.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

Then you've got this fast-growing SaaS-based model over here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

The way that we did it is

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

We took the technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

So the technology is really the secret sauce of this business.