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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

We said, absolutely not.

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

We are not remote first.

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

We're remote never.

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

I hate that business model.

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

But, you know, so then he got mad at us and, you know, put in his notice like, hey, I'm going to leave.

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

And we said, cool, you know, you can stay as long as you continue producing.

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

And he just stopped doing good work.

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

He started slacking on how he handled clients and caused some upsets.

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

Matt, what's context here?

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

How big was the team size when this particular thing happened?

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

He started with us when we had like seven people.

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

And I mean, he got let go this year and we're over 70 people now.

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

He was high up in our support team.

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

So he was great.

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

He did great work for while he was here.

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

I mean, literally, I had him over at my house every Thanksgiving for three years.

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

You know, like he was part of the family, right?

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

But life changed and he had to exit and then...

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

I'll tell you what.