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Mohit Lad

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
191 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

Fortunately for us, we're not one of those companies that needs cash every 12 months to continue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

And so let's talk about that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

The way we raised capital is when we believe that we can use capital to scale the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

And what I want to point out, for example, is our last raise was in December 2015, and we haven't raised since then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

And so anytime we raise, it's not because we need the money, it's because we believe that capital infusion will take it to the next level.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

And that's the difference between companies that need to raise every 12 months, otherwise they actually end up not being able to operate, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

And that's not the mode.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

And what happens when you raise a Series A on a slide deck,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

And then you go and build the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

By the time you've exhausted your series A, you now have to raise your B because otherwise you can't take it to market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

And so that's different in companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

And we're not the only ones.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

There are companies that are more organically built in the early days.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

where the growth is slower in the early days, but it's more sustainable because your fundamentals are really strong.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

And look, we've had revenue since the first year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

So we were not one of those companies that that raised at a high valuation with a slide deck.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

And that's what I'm getting at is everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years

The only currency we care about, we don't really even care about valuations.