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Mark Organ

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
372 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

decided on a pretty low price for the stock because it was after 9-11, there was no budgets or whatnot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

And we came up with a pretty arbitrarily low price.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

I remember it was 10 cents a share, which was a nice round number at the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

And we probably valued the company at something like $2 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

And basically everybody in the company bought stock.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

That's where I got the idea from.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

It was my own experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

Everybody in the company bought stock.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

A number of people's parents and relatives and whatnot all bought, not just because they believe in the company, but they want to keep it alive and keep their kids' jobs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

But that extended our life from... We had four months of cash remaining and it went extended from four months to nine months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

It was actually a really big difference.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

And so we gave a lot of stock.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

And as a result, there's a number of... There are some pretty junior folks at Eloqua that made $10 million plus when Eloqua went public.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

And that's because they got so much stock

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

during this time when we were in real trouble.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

Actually, I can figure that out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

It's still ongoing, so we don't know how much stock they're going to buy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

I don't think the CEO has put a limit on how much

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1717 3 Genius Ways To Conserve SaaS Cash To Survive Virus From Eloqua Founder Who Survived 9/11

on how much they could buy.