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Nathan Berry

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1489 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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

So for example, I, as a founder, I'm like, let's spend right now because let's get on the growth trajectory that we want on our path to 50 million ARR, 100 billion ARR.

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

And you don't want a team member to be like, no, no, no.

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

I want money in my pocket sharing.

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

Yeah.

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

And so by having them participate in each side of it, they get to live in that tension that you as a founder live in and they go, okay, yeah, let's invest now because profit sharing will be bigger down the road.

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

And because, um,

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

my equity is going to have more value down the road.

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

Yeah, so I own 90% and the team pool is 10%, of which 7% is currently allocated.

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

It's working decently.

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

There's a lot of things that we're having to figure out.

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

We're able to drive a lot of free accounts.

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

But one, for example, we found that our mobile experience isn't as good as it should be.

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

And so inexpensive accounts to drive are mobile accounts.

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

But if you don't have a great in-app mobile experience, then they're not going to convert or they're not going to have a good uptake.

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

So there's a lot that we've been trying to figure out.

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

The other thing is we're about to kick off some big new brand campaigns where we actually hired a major marketing agency to produce video brand ads for us.

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

Oh, interesting.

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

We'll see how that goes.

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

Yeah, I mean, there's all kinds of different ways to do it.

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

And I think we're just excited to see.