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Nathan Berry

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1489 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

That's just part of entrepreneurship, but that's the journey that we all signed up for.

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

Yeah, so we're at 25 million ARR right now.

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

Yeah, we've been spending a little more aggressively this year.

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

So we're doing about 5% profit.

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

But at the beginning of the year, we're close to 20%, 23%.

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

And so next year, we'll return to the 20% mark.

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

Yeah, well, for me, I grew up in a household where money was really scarce.

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

My dad ran a Christian college ministry, and so it lived off of donations and support from churches or other groups.

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

And so money was just not a thing that there was much of.

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

And so my parents did a really good job of instilling that, like,

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

If you want money, go earn it.

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

And the way that I did it was my dad was really into woodworking.

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

He built the house that we grew up in.

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

And so we had this like little shop of, it was a lot of like kind of hand-me-down tools, but it worked great.

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

And so I would do these woodworking projects and then go door to door to sell them to earn money.

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

And I remember I had made a bunch of these like wood carvings and stuff.

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

And we were headed in.