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Nathan Latka

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

So you could ping Jamie Sastry, he's the CEO of Juniper Group and say, hey, I'd like to get the P&L from the other travel tech company in Juniper Group Network.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

And you can go see their P&L and maybe learn from that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

I see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

But there's not like a dashboard where you can see everything real time against all the other 14 companies in Juniper Group, you know, sub-operating group of Constellation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

I see, I see, I see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

And I mean, again, Vista has a similar playbook, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

And they deliver this sort of value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

I mean, they have a massive 150 point checklist ranging from when to remove the sign from the company headquarters when you acquire it, down to how to run an SEO playbook, down to how to hire.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

Again, how does Constellation like deliver all of this stuff to you?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

Is it you just asking randomly or can you log in and see a bunch of templates somewhere in a website?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

from a financial standpoint is really impressive and i'm looking forward now learn about product sales and marketing sites as well that's awesome that's awesome what about um obviously you're going to want to process you want to pick someone you culturally align with but you also have to think about price right so so how did the valuation conversation happen how did you guys get to a deal price

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

Are we talking, though, like, you know, Constellation tends to be fairly conservative.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

Vista might be more aggressive because they buy and flip.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

Constellation holds forever, usually forever.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

I mean, are we talking like a 2x revenue multiplier or like a 15x revenue multiplier?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

Can you give any kind of range?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

In order to make sure you don't breach the confidentiality, let me rephrase the question so you can give it in a way that doesn't talk about what you actually closed for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

When you were going into the acquisition process, you personally, before you even talked to Constellation, you maybe had a number in your head.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

How were you valuing the company before going into the acquisition processes?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Hotel Tech SaaS Just Exited to Constellation Group After Hitting 30% EBITDA Margin and sharing 25% of profits with employees

Talk to me a little bit more, Sanjay.