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Oli Gardner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
162 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

And I work on our Cylons team, our machine learning artificial intelligence team, which we've just grown this big data team, a bunch of data scientists, and that's really excited.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

Our goal there is to automate conversion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

I think our CPA for paid is, we just engaged a new agency, so it's fluctuating.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

But I think from what I've seen, it's around the 160 to 200 mark.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

We only had one in-house guy, and he left.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

So we're still looking to hire someone who's going to control everything, but we hired Thrive Digital, a local agency.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

We looked for three of them, and they seemed to be the best, so we went with them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

It's been like three weeks, so it's very new.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

Oh, business book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

I would say How to Deliver a TED Talk by Jeremy Donovan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

I'm a raging insomniac, so regular sleep, maybe three hours, but I'm probably in bed for seven.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

Three hours, Ollie?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

How do you survive?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

Well, I have a monster sitting beside me right here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

Oh, the marriage I was about to get into would be an incredibly stressful and uncomfortable part of my life, but it would get better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

Part of that changed my life forever in the best way possible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

I developed a love of wildlife and photography, and that brought me back to Canada.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

So that was amazing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
661: How Unbounce Hit $12M/Year In Revenue, 14k Customers, Very Little $$ Raised with Co-Founder Oli Gardner

The relationship didn't end up working out, but that part changed my life, so I'm forever thankful for that.