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Nathan Berry

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1489 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

And it's just this crazy place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

And so then I thought, okay, one, Brent and Ryan and their other partner, John,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

just have this great idea for what they're going to do with it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

And I was like, can you imagine the mastermind groups and the like mini conferences and the writers retreats and whatever else that you can have, like the stories and memories that you can make at a place like this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

And so, yeah, I had to, had to get involved.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

Yeah, some of that has happened.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

The property has taken a lot longer, I think, than we originally had thought to get it up and running and get it to the point where groups can stay there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

So I've actually only been there twice and just taking my family down.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

So we haven't yet had a big gathering because there were things like had to get running water, had to get...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

get it livable again.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

And then there were some big setbacks in there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

Like this summer, there was a fire caused by some really old electrical that burned down the hotel there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

It was on its 149th anniversary of opening that the hotel burned down.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

So it's kind of like anything in entrepreneurship where

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

you have these great grand dreams and then it's way, it turns out it's way harder than you thought.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

And then just when it's really hard, then like there's this crazy setback of like the coolest building in the whole town getting burned down.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

Or I don't know the equivalent from like you're in my businesses would be like when you like lose that customer that you've fought so hard to get, or like that was that stretch thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

I think that, so our very first team retreat, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

Let me set the stage.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy

So January, 2016, the previous 12 months we'd grown from 2000 in MRR to a hundred thousand in MRR.