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Matt Ford

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
604 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

And now that we've had three years in the market, it's just quite obvious that this business should be sustainable and profitable as a default.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

And there's always more things we want to do with innovating.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

We're considering adding payments onto the platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

We're considering what other customers we can expand into.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

But if we're doing that from a place where the core business is profitable, then we're not having to fundraise to avoid a layoff at the same time that we're evaluating these new options.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

We know the default is, hey, we got a good group of people that love what we're doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

We got a customer base that's like hooked on our product innovation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

Like that's the default.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

Great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

So now we can, now we can use that, you know, that foundation and look to more and more ways that we can innovate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

And for me, I'm like, you know, if, if a fundraising opportunity emerges, not out of need, kind of what you were saying, like you're just for the founders getting rich of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

Like we're finally in a place where we can like, we're coming up on fundraising for opportunity versus for need.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

And I think that's, you know, extremely exciting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

Yeah, I own a nice chunk.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

And back to your question, how do I think about it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

It would be great to own a greater percentage of Prism, but this is the furthest I've taken a company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

I own an asset that grows directly with how much I succeed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

I'm in complete control of my most valuable asset.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

It's more than anything else.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How this SaaS For Music Venues Survived Covid Then hit $3m ARR

No co-founders.