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Patrick Campbell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
752 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

But it's hard.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

The incentives aren't there because they've already been given something.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

And so what we ended up doing, there's a couple of things and there's some things I would do differently before.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

So what I did is, straight up, it was just like, hey guys, I need more of this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

I don't know what the expectations were.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

Everyone had a little different thought in their head.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

I need more of this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

We need more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

We need this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

I need to be taken care of.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

And then what I ended up doing is, so I got a number of large grants to fix the first mistake.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

Wait, how much total in grants?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

I want to be careful about percentages and stuff like that, but we went from... Oh, sorry, sorry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

You mean equity grant.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

I thought you meant grants from the government.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

No, no, no, no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

We've never raised money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

We've never gotten any money from anywhere, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition

So I got a number of very large grants to start even things out, equity grants, basically.