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Nathan Latka

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
223384 total appearances

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

$6 million of ARR with 25 on the team is very healthy revenue per employee.

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

And did I hear you correctly earlier, Vlad?

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

You said you're cash flow positive today?

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

So, I mean, let me decode that.

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

Are you spending money on variable expenses right now?

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

Like paid advertising, which you could shut off at any time to be profitable.

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

Is that what you're saying?

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

Okay.

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

How much are you spending on paid ads right now across all channels?

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

Is it meaningful more than five grand a month?

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

So tell me more about that.

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?