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Nathan Latka

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

The reason I'm going to dig here is because, you know, I interview thousands of founders and I plot all the growth tactics they give me here on my screen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

And one of them that they bring up, obviously, are app exchanges and partnerships.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

But many of them wait until they have scale because partnerships usually take more time and they can be expensive to execute if you're doing custom integrations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

You actually chose to do this, though, scaling early on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

It was one of the first growth tactics you used.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

Tell me more about what those partnership agreements look like and why you decided to go after those first.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

Let's talk a little bit about AI before we wrap up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

We've got about a minute and a half, two minutes left here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

You're obviously very technology forward, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

Deep technological roots, great engineer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

So just to be clear, people still have to input some kind of image into your system and then you're making it better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

I guess, why do you think that's the future?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

Won't people just create images from scratch using nano banana and other technologies?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

Understood.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

Vlad, as we wrap up here, excited to see what you do with the business going forward.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

You're in control though.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

You said you and your co-founder own 70%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

You're doing about 6 million bucks of revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

If someone came and offered you a Forex multiple today, so $24 million all cash upfront to sell the business, do you take the deal?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

And let's ask a negative question then before we wrap.