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Matt Dion

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
142 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

And then I've got a dev team of six, and then I've got sales, marketing, customer success is the rest.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

I mean, that was a year and a half ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

Um, we're slightly higher than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

Um, you know, the services side of things, um, it grows, it grows quite slowly, you know, because it's, it's, you know, you need people behind that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

So we've increased that by a few.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

And then the software side, since we spoke, we probably added 20 or 30, uh, clients in the mix there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

I mean, the the since we spoke at you, like when we spoke, we were just I hadn't even completed the acquisition of that other company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

And so sorry, which other company?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

Well, so I bought another company out of Toronto called G-Shift.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

I was right in the middle of acquiring that company when we last spoke.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

So that closed in October.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

And really, a lot of that year was spent sort of bringing the two companies together, merging the platforms, the people, the systems, everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

And so we weren't necessarily focused on aggressive growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

We were focused on making everything work together well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

So now, end of the day, the company doubled in size and got to cash flow positive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

So it was a really good move, that acquisition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

And now we're focusing on the sales and marketing required to get growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

They were doing about a million and a half.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

So we were doing about a million.