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Nathan Latka

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

And where did you, you know, there's a lot of people listening right now that potentially want to sell to a group like Capacity or want to bootstrap like Bridget.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

There's also folks that want to go start their own version of Capacity, maybe like with a search fund.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

Where did you get the initial capital to get going on this?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

You weren't the original founder at Answers.com.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

So I don't know how much you actually made when the company did the, you know, the secondary sale for 900 million bucks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

But where did you get the original capital?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

And David, did you sell like most people in the seed round?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

I mean, you're selling 15 to 20% of the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

Were you in that same range?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

And how was that the 1.6 round in 27 million in 2017?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

What did you pay though for Lumenbox?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

I mean, was that a company you launched from scratch or you purchased?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

And if you purchased it, what was the total cash you had to pay to get that business under your belt?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

I want to go back to Bridget because I'm sure she's found the original conversations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

Before I do that, though, David, just to sum up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

So we talked about revenue and the number of acquisitions, that capacity you've raised.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

What's the total you raised to date for capacity?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform

And the last run was, I believe, in October for 26 million, a Series D?