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Mike Zisman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
264 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

Our plan right now is a little over 60.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

We will not hit the roll of 40 this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

Our growth is to get bigger and bigger.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

It's harder and harder.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

If you look at SaaS companies, it's fascinating.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

It makes perfect sense.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

If you look at SaaS companies, as the companies have got larger, the growth rate's gone down.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

Well, so, you know, when we came into the market and really started selling to clubs in 2014, as I said, when you do an acquisition, it's some combination of technology or product, talent and customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

The best acquisitions are all three.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

Some of them is just buying customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

So our first goal was let's go get those customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

We had no interest whatsoever in their old desktop software, but we acquired a whole bunch of customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

And then after that was really an acquihire, a guy who wanted to be in the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

It was clear, like, just come join up with us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

And then we acquired a few other firms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

And then, you know, in 2023,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

We made the strategic decision.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

It was important to expand from B2B, selling to clubs, to B2C, selling directly to golfers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

There's a lot more golfers than clubs, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Golf Genius: $53M ARR, $10M Self-Funded, Zero VC โ€” Mike Zisman

And so, you know, we entered that market with two acquisitions, you know, Golf Shot and Swing U that have been able to put them together.