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Nathan Berry

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1489 total appearances

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

When if you just look at the

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

the cold leverage, just let just straight up leverage.

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

Then the answer is this has worked.

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

So let's keep doing it, put in more effort there, go faster.

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

Um, and so it's a balance between what's fun and like a little bit of a diversification and like, no, just keep doubling down and can work it.

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

Can't tell you.

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

Yeah, that's a good question.

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

So it's things, markets that we're expanding into, something that is a good fit, something that we hear a lot from our customer base of like, if we see integrations popping up a lot,

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

If we look at, say, our three-year roadmap, and if there's something that we're planning to build, but it's a few years off, and then we see someone who is getting good traction in that space, our customers are already using them, then it's like, oh, we could accelerate a plan two or three years out if we buy them today.

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

Especially when, in any software company, engineering time is the single greatest constraint.

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

And so there's so many opportunities to chase and you just have to take the Richard Branson quote of like, opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

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

And so you end up in a point where capital is more available than like skilled engineering time to apply to problems.

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

And that's when acquisitions start to become interesting of like, okay, I can accelerate this plan.

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

you know, for a million dollars rather than having to spin up a whole new engineering team and then spend a year building it.

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

Thanks for having me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

It was $160 million, which is the size of many IPOs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

So we changed the name from ConvertKit to Seva.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

And Seva is a Sanskrit word and it means selfless service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?

And basically, we're trying to build a much bigger brand.