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Joost de Valk

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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

But it's,

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

I mean, leading marketing for WordPress is a lot of work, but it doesn't have to be all my work.

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

That's a good question.

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

I'm not really into business books.

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

I like novels.

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

there's a couple I follow deeply Elon Musk but that's probably the most mentioned one name like an under the radar one maybe in the Netherlands that people may not have heard of well it's funny there's actually a local guy here who runs a 300 person company but he's done so well in making themselves controlling teams within that company that is really impressive and I talk to him about that relatively often yeah so what's the company what's his name

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

The company is called Moderkolk, which you wouldn't know.

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

It's like a really local industrial company.

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

I'm looking on his last name.

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

The company name is M-O-D-E-R-K-O-L-K.

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

Yeah, it's a good example of how a relatively local company can build something really useful and have small teams that steer themselves and are basically self-controlling units entirely.

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

I really like seeing that.

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

Um...

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

So a lot of it, I mean, I'm an SEO guy.

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

So I'm going to say google.com and actually searching for stuff and looking at what's there and what's missing and what people are searching for and are missing.

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

Sorry, again?

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

Seven.

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

Um, my 20 year old self should probably start a company sooner.

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

2010.

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

So, uh, 28, 28.

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