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Kevin Davis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
220 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

And then, um, you know, until, like I said, about a, I think of a month or two ago now, um, when it all went down, but, um, the nice thing about it was just, we are both fighting after the same partners, hardware companies, and after the merger, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

And we did kind of a PR push for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

We had so many of those partners come back to us just kind of proactively from their side saying, now that you guys figured it out, now we want to kind of move forward, work together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

And so we've just had our hands full now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

So I think that really was kind of the hypothesis going to the merger is that

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

consolidate the market, provide just that one option for people that want that nationwide last mile installation that's very highly technical providers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

And instead of these two companies duking it out, it was just merged into one and make it easier for people to choose.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

Yeah, there was no champagne party and us going to Vegas.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

No, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

No, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

And I would say that our duty to maximize our shareholder value, I think that it is in very good hands now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

And obviously, there's not a lot that I can say in terms of the specific partnerships, but

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

I'm super excited for, you know, the next six to 12 months in terms of the partners that are reaching out to us, the scale of those partners where, you know, it just makes it easier.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

And so anybody that was a shareholder in Geek2, you know, for Hello Tech moving forward, I'm excited for all our shares.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

Yeah, you know, that's a good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

I try to, you know, it's a little bit in flux in terms of moving between all my Geek2 kind of emails.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

And I was basically the main one doing the AdGeek2 Twitter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

So probably that I'm still kind of the primary person on that or just, you know, Kevin at HelloTech now is a great way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

And I'm super passionate about helping people in terms of if, you know, people out there have issues in terms of, you know, how to bootstrap or get to the, you know, I just don't want people to go out and reinvent the wheel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 396: Why He Raised $3m Then Merged With #1 Competitor

And I know that I had issues before 500 startups to try to figure out, you know, what was the best way to put a pitch deck together or angel list or anything.