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Matt Prados

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
294 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

So, I mean, we were looking at, you know, pretty much $150 million valuation, 20% deal, 50% for secondary, which is where you take it off the table and then 50% to leave on the books.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

So we were going to take that 15 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

We've got a short list of some companies that we want to acquire to go into other verticals and, you know, as a go-to-market strategy and other verticals.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

It's a great question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

So repeat it real quick.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

So at what point does it make sense to take money off the table?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

At the end of the day, it's a personal question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

You know, how much are you giving up?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

How much are you getting now?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

You know, there's some de-risking factors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

But at the end of the day, if I wait two years, you know, instead of this valuation, if we get to 5x from where we are.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

What did I lose by taking it now?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

You know, I'm not going to make that up in an investment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

So it's a it's a hard personal choice.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

You know, I mean, you've heard a lot of different things over the last two days about how people did things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

And there's no one answer that's right for anybody.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

Somebody was like bootstrapping is trying to break even at the end of every year and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation

Like, I don't believe in that.