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Nathan Latka

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

Check out founderpath.com.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

So Callum, just to pull the story forward here, with the website and the concept we see on our screen right now, your 2014-2015 version, did you pass a million dollars of annual revenue with this concept or no?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

So you basically, I guess, give me the quick quote here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

You went from half, repeat this, I guess, if it's true.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

You went from about half a million of revenue in 2017 to...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

to five years later doing $10 million of revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

Is that about right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

Yeah, that's correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

So take us into the growth tactics there, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

What happened?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

I mean, based off the digital footprint you've left, it looks like you invested significantly starting in late 2021 at SEO just by how much you're being indexed by the Wayback Machine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

You also have very, very high domain rating, which really, I mean, you popped that back in 2016, but then you further optimized it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

It looked like in this 2018 onward period.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

What were your top growth channels in 2018, 2019?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

Break that viral loop down for me, because a lot of people think viral loop is all about like, I can't do a viral loop because I'm not a document signing tool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

There's not two people for every one thing, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

So how did you actually mathematically and psychologically engineer one user turning into three?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

Calum, the question here is the chicken and egg problem, right?