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Jon Lee

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
181 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

This was like a decades ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

Unfortunately, I'm still binded to confidentiality on that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

I have to ask my attorney.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

I think that it's valued primarily today on EBITDA.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

So operating income, because at the end of the day, you're paying for media, you're generating revenue, the product that you're ultimately building is profitability, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

You're building, that's the product that you ultimately deliver is the arbitrage between the cost and the revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

And so I would look at the EBITDA multiple as probably a good way to value those businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

What would the multiple be?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

Anywhere between 8 to 15, depending on the growth rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

Have annual revenue?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

That's on EBITDA basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

Yeah, so my background is mathematics, so I've always been fascinated of where you can apply optimization techniques in any business process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

It was bizarre.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

It was all about optimizing the cost against the revenue that we received.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

And so what we wanted to do was actually build the hardest thing to do in a hits-driven business, which is to build a hits-making machine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

And so what DNA Games was focused on was building a platform for game developers to...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

optimize the gaming experience in real time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already

And so back in 2008, during the big Facebook game craze, we had built a Facebook gaming company and platform that allowed developers to be able to do testing on an iterative basis.