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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

We talk about a lot of things.

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

We've invested in companies together.

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

I mean, we talk a lot.

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

And honestly, I don't think we're a good fit either because he's a very, he's a completely remote company and we're a very local company.

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

So we wouldn't fit.

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

There's culturally, I mean, we like each other and the people within the companies definitely like each other, but there's absolutely no cultural fit between the companies and how we operate.

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

No, there's no financial model there.

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

So all that has to go through Yoast.com.

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

Well, it takes a bit of my time out, of course.

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

And it'll probably mean me doing some less work here.

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

The good thing is we're a board of four people here at Yoast.

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

So we run it together with the four of us.

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

And we're basically peers.

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

we all have equity.

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

I was the only founder, but people slowly came on.

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

One of those four is my wife who basically runs the company.

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

And this is the smartest of the two of us.

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

No, so it'll, it'll impact my time here a bit, but it's not a full-time role.

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

I'll be spending about eight hours a week on it.