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Nathan Latka

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
224696 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

You watch my show.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

So sign up at founderpath.com.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

And when you get the onboarding email, I reply and I see all those.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

Just reply and say, Nathan, I found you through YouTube and I'll make sure to prioritize you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

I would love to cut you a check.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

Check out founderpath.com.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

Also, Jared, I have to ask, because again, so many founders get stuck in this trap.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

Did you take, I mean, I care about founders building personal wealth, building companies they love with customers who they love backing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

If you don't take money in the early rounds, you end up really stuck with no way to actually personally get liquidity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

Did you take any secondary early on or were you sort of screwed at the end?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

So Jared, just to sum that up, one word answer if you can.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

Many people would look at Box and say Jared was a co-founder.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

He grew it to hundreds of millions of revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

They raised 380 million total.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

Surely he made more than 10, 20, 30 million bucks on this company, but it sounds like that was not the case.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

Is that accurate?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

There were many years where you guys, from a net income perspective, lost more than $30 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

Did you ever consider shutting the company down?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

Jared, there's a lot of folks saying, look, software, anyone can build it now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman

It's hard to compete.