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Michel Van Velde

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
130 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

definitely having engineering yeah yeah they're writing custom code for websites mobile apps things like that yeah yeah definitely yeah and and that change came basically in 2008 when the um uh basically the crisis you know the financial financial crisis hit us uh everybody moved to open source web development and we were already a a well-known player uh with regards to open source web development um so that's where i basically drew the majority of our clients in in web yeah

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

Yeah, large-scale platforms, websites, and mobile apps.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

Big, large, international clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

So, so, so between 150 to six, seven, eight, over a million plus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

2007, we grew up until I think it was about 400, 500,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

And in 2008, when the financial crisis hit us, that's when we started growing rapidly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

And I mean, very rapid.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

In 2012, I decided to join a competition for the fastest growing company in the Netherlands and in Europe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

We became number 25 in terms of fastest growing companies in the Netherlands.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

Well, the thing was, open source at the time was a major draw for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

We used Drupal, which is an open source content management framework to build websites with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

Now it's a digital experience platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

At the time, it was a content management framework.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

And it got a lot of attention in the news because I was playing the news.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

I was creating a lot of free publicity around Drupal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year

And that brought in a...