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Joost de Valk

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
160 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

I mean, it's making good money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

We've got decent revenue, decent profits.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

But this company exists for more reasons than just to make money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

We have a mission where we want to give everyone the SEO tools to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

I don't disagree with that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

But as I said, we're growing 60% year-on-year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

Revenue is growing faster.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

So it's going pretty well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

So you just let that probably could be way higher if we actually optimize for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

Uh, well, so far it's a lot of it's been invested, reinvested into growth, uh, into new people, more developers, et cetera.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

So no, and we're diverting a little bit of it to, how do you call it, real estate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

We bought some of our offices, stuff like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

But putting in the bank is really pretty useless right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

So I don't really like giving a lot of money in the bank because, well, there's no interest whatsoever.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

Why would he?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

I don't think he can afford us, first of all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

I don't think he can.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

Yeah, well, I talk to Matt on a regular basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

I don't know if you've seen yesterday that he just appointed me lead marketing and communication.