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Nathan Latka

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

All right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

So that's the bankruptcy route.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Other deals you've done, some of them actually we've had on the show.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

So I remember we had dashed this on back in 2022, 2023.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Oh, you did?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

They were really proud of the fact that their paid marketing was working.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

They were spending about $50,000 a month on paid.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

What did you see when you looked at that business and why'd you end up doing the deal?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Well, it's a great business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Yeah, they said when they came on, again, this was January 26, 2022, that they were spending $440 on CAC to get a customer that would pay on average $135 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

So they had about a five month payback.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

And you're saying one of the values you brought is you saw opportunity to basically make those economics, you know, 100% better, cut the cost in half.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

That's great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

They had 2,600 customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

You mentioned churn though.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

I mean, they did tell me, I remember reviewing the notes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

They said they had 36% gross annual logo churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

I mean, most, I would imagine most people listening are going, man, if I've got churn at 36%, no acquirer is going to want to buy me.