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Patrick Bosworth

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
221 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

And that depends on the number of rooms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

Number of rooms and the product that they're buying.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

We founded it in February of 2012.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

We certainly had the tough conversation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

So, you know, Marco and I...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

We're working on this business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

We hadn't founded it yet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

We hadn't created the actual entity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

But Marco and I have been working on it for about a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

And we met Craig Weissman, I think we met him the beginning of September of 2011.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

And it took about five months to court him.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

And his last two companies that IPO'd, but he'd never been a founder of a business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

He was the CTO of Salesforce for, he was there for about nine years and was the CTO for the last three years that he was there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

And, um, when we were Marco and I were in Vegas at the time and we were trying to raise money there, um, we were getting valuations more in the, you know, one to 2 million range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

Um, and the day that Craig joined the valuations jumped up to the $10 million range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

Did you tell him that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

He knew his market value, and he was a party to those discussions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

So there was no information asymmetry there, nor would I have wanted there to be one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

And so we had already been having some conversations about the equity split.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m

But those conversations came to a head pretty quickly.