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Kyle Lovett

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
141 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

We were very early on, so we were, I know we were sub, we were sub 20K a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

We continued to run the business after the acquisition under the Keep umbrella for a couple of years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

And we ended up growing it to around a million and a half in ARR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

Yeah, we are independent now, but it's been quite the journey.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

We

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

Me and my brother, who's my business partner, we built Customer Hub after leaving Infusionsoft back in the early days of Infusionsoft.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

We grew the business for a few years and Infusionsoft, now known as Keap, they acquired our business in 2011.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

And so we were both back at the company for five or six years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

We ended up leaving, starting another business and ultimately we acquired Customer Hub back from Keap.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

Two and a half years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

So we're independent again, and we're super excited about the future.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

So we made the acquisition in 2018.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

Um, we had had conversations with them, um, at the time we left the company about it and just the timing wasn't right for them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

And so we started another business software business called loyal stream and, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

We're growing that product along and they knew we were interested.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

And so when the timing was right for them, they came back and engaged with us in early 2018 and the acquisition occurred in late 2018.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

And when was this thing a baby?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

Oh, well, we built the product and launched it back in 2009.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

So that software that we purchased back is in its golden years at this point.

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