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Joshua Keller

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
115 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

So you're shoving in your headline, your images, your landing page, and then Maximus is self-optimizing based on the learning of the pixel placement.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

To the site level.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

So if you're going to a native network like Outbringer or Chibula, you could be having a thousand sites.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

So for you to change each bid on each one of those site placements based on performance, you'd be sitting there all day with one campaign if it was running a lot of volume.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

Late 2017.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

So it's brand new.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

Basically, it was in Union Square, Mia, and it was...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

The single best tool I had to launch and keep and stabilize a team became too good where I felt like I needed to share it with others because anyone's doing it the old way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

It's like sewing versus an automated sewing machine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

You're just not going to do this fast.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

Yeah, because in order for me to capitalize on all the traffic and all the verticals out there, I would need a team of 500 buyers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

And that takes a certain level of time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

Whereas for a company to directly be using it like an AARP or a Harry's who's actually buying the media themselves, they don't want to give the business to an agency.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

They want to run and control everything themselves.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

It was built.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

for that so they didn't need an agency.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

Or if you were an agency that was already buying media, you could build out your team a lot faster.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

No, we bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

Both companies actually have been funded out of the revenue it created.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1420 He Went Zero to $1m in ARR in 6 Months, Bootstrapped

I started in 2008 in my apartment with just myself and built it up.