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Madhan Kanagawa

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
188 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Now with the growing traction, what we are also seeing is word of mouth is starting to kick in and we are seeing a lot of more customers coming in because they worked in one company where they used us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

They moved to another company and then they asked that company also starts using us for their services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Or maybe they're going to, you know, they're having career growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

So we want people to have career growth rather than losing their jobs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Well, this is a good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

I think we've got to this point without outside capital, but then it's also challenging because you're limiting your growth, especially when the market and everything else around you is going faster and faster.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

In the last two years, especially, it has been interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

We have been growing extremely fast with very, very large deals along the pipeline, which means we need to transform the company a little bit from a more SMB-focused company to potentially a mid-market enterprise company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

I don't know, maybe it's going to be challenging to do this without external funding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

So we are exporting all options.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

So, you know, nothing is really off the table.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

It's not like I have a philosophical, you know, I'm against getting outside funding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

I would say, you know, around 10 million would be a good target.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

good starting point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

You know, that'll get us to do certain things that we want to do over the last, you know, few years we couldn't do so far.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

So I would say that's a good starting point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Um, I, I would, I would, I think so.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

I mean, well, let me, let me see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

I mean, it depends on where the valuation goes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

And I actually, we haven't spent a lot of time trying to, you know, uh,