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Matt Weirich

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
349 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

Oh, you did price it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

Okay, cool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

All right, cool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

So first customers, you thought were going to come from the Coldwell Bank of the World.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

You pivoted in 2015 and said, we're just going to direct to multifamily.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

How did you land that first multifamily customer?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

Thankfully, it was a personal network.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

Early on when we were seeking that product market fit, it was an annoying amount of networking events and meetings and things like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

But there was a

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

a lot of attention on the PropTech space in Chicago at that point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

We launched our company in Chicago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

There was an accelerator that was starting in the PropTech space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

There was a multifamily owner who was interested in partnering from an innovation standpoint.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

We sat down with them, launched in three communities early on to just prove out the value proposition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

I always say product market fit smacked us in the face.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

The second we launched into those multi-family communities, the usage went up into the right, the ROI, the use cases, value proposition, everything was abundantly more clear than anything we had captured working with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

And so what does that mean in terms of 2015, your first real year of revenue?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

Do you remember how much you did?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

2015, I want to say we did maybe...