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Nathan Berry

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

And we see a lot of opportunity to bump that a little higher, maybe to six or 7%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

Yeah, so we have iterated with a lot of different profit sharing things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

We launched profit sharing on our very first team retreat.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

As we talked about earlier.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

What year was that, Nathan?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

Yeah, summer 2016.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

And we had grown from 100K to 300K in monthly revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

We'd saved up three months of expenses in the bank.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

We'd gotten to 50% profit margins through the team being really lean.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

And I wanted to reward the team for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

And so we took 100 grand and paid it out to the team in profit sharing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

Everyone was totally blown away.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

We were up to 20, but six of them had been hired in the previous 30 days.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

Everyone participated, but for some people it was like 600 bucks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

So what we do is we do a six month period is when the profit sharing is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

And so for everyone that has been there for the entire period, you're eligible for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

We actually give partial credit.