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Mateo Munoz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
180 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

No, basically we were founded as a limited over on that side of the water.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

And we were opened up here as an ink on this side under that original management group.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

And essentially what happened is through that cash burn and everything and us having to go through insolvency, we basically were able to, with the HMRC over there, go through the equivalency of Chapter 11 and roll into our new group where we currently sit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

Yeah, so we were able to do that to pull forward quite a bit of the losses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

It is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

We always say it was a curse and a blessing, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

Because we were able to knock out a lot of debt that we had that was built up that shouldn't have been there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

Obviously, had to roll some of that forward within the negotiations as well, but it was very manageable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

And so when we went out for our Series A...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

We were able to go ahead and platform, knowing that we had that insolvency in the background, but people knowing that we had a solid business strategy behind us and where we were looking to go with this SaaS product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

So there was revenue on the books.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

How much?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

So we did take a hit going through that insolvency.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

So as you can imagine, we had to shed, had to said employees, they took away, they, you know, they chipped at us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

There's certain things that were said, but we've been able to gain it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

So at that height, I would say we were probably doing about 4 million as just a full service event technology coming out of that first year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

So in 2016, last year, we did just, just over 2 million pounds worth of business last year coming out of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

Right, right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
820: How to Bankrupt a $4m/yr Business then Relaunch as SaaS

But with a much smaller team.