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Leif Abraham

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
142 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

make people immediately start thinking of, okay, what would it be if this accident would happen?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

What would that mean for me?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

Et cetera, et cetera.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

And suddenly these questions pop up, these distractions pop up, et cetera, that you don't really want to push on your team yet because obviously that process takes multiple months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

A lot can still go wrong, even in the last days of negotiation, et cetera, et cetera.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

And so I think it's also important to keep your team focused on the work and focused on their job, basically, and not to have them be distracted by the potential outcome that might come.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

Yeah, so very heavily word of mouth, which was driven by content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

But when we say content, not just like blog posts and whatnot and SEO, but really what we did was we always try to launch something we call like a content stunt within every, basically like every six weeks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

And that basically means something that is talk worthy enough for us to either get some PR, to have some viral effect value on something that we could- Give me an example of one of those.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

Potentially post to like a product hunt and so on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

And so we did, for example-

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

We did a study called Slash Workers, which was basically a study on people having basically multiple professions and so on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

We did a study on remote working called Anywhere Workers, which we've done together with Remote Year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

And so also tapping a partner into that kind of amplifies the audience you have once you launch these things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

We've done things like...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

like a legal service, like, so to say, a legal service called Williams & Herrigs, which basically helps you send demand letters to clients that haven't paid you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

And it was actually like an extension that was built into the product of Enco, and it even exists still today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

And, you know, we even charge for the letters being sent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?

So before the acquisition, we got to close to 60,000 users.