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Marcin Kleczynski

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
286 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

That's something that's really changed since we actually got started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

So it's 40 bucks a year?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

40 bucks a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

So decided to go to the University of Illinois.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

Actually, right near the end of that, we started building the freeware software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

And it was really just learning over the five years how to program, how to actually remediate the malware.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

This is not an easy business to start, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

This is threats.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

These are criminals.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

This is stuff that's really evolving pretty rapidly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

So getting our heads wrapped around that was a good chunk of that time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

All pre-revenue, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

In 2008, we took our first dollar.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

And I think we made a million dollars that year, which was a pretty eye-opening, crazy experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

Yeah, I think we grew that seven times.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

So just a rollercoaster of a ride in the first couple of years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

And again,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

We were all consumer in the first two, three years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

We didn't start building business products until I'd say 2010, 2011.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

And now it's half of our revenue.