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Matt Gorniak

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
285 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

We have a great customer making dog crates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

And how do you sell a high value?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

Usually these are high consideration items because you kind of want to understand, you know, if I'm changing things, what does it look like?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

It's a high consideration.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

So in that case, they impact dog crates, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

They're wonderful dog crates in that case to bring them to life.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

They're a very small startup, really.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

You need digital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

But that's on that end.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

Millions, actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

So the platform, so actually this is a cool story.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

To make this work, you have to kind of bring two worlds together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

So basically, Ben Houston is the founder of the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

He started 2012, and he was a top supplier of visual effects to Hollywood.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

So movies like ILM or movies like Star Force, Force Awakens, T-World Utilities, he got a lot of credit for that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

And then in 2015, he met...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

a couple of folks from a small company called Shopify who joined the company and they said, hey, let's make this for e-commerce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

So the knowledge, the sort of the IP has been built over many years, but the platform itself is three and a half years old.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year

So we kind of, when myself and Goddard got into the company, we brought in with us, you know, the family, and now we're 120 people.