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Nicholas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1093 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

And they sent me, sent flowers to Alina.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

All the courting and all that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

So eventually I said, okay, let's do a deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

So that deal was June 2020.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

It was base 10.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

And they offered 15 on 55 pre.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

So we're doing around four plus million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

So it was around 12x.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

That was the number, 12x run rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

So we took it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

No secondary, all balance sheet?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

So the reason why people say it's 18, because there were three million secondary.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

But at that price, Alina and I had no interest in selling any of their shares because it was just the very beginning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

And the angel that I had, by the way, I didn't shut down the company when the thing happened with Salesforce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

I took the same company, I renamed it, and I carried my angel with me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

At least it feels good when they make money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

So that's what I did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

So even though we bootstrapped, I had some angels from a previous life of SYNN.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

So we do this round, 3 million of secondary, and then we keep growing.