Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

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

Right.

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

And we've all grown and we're all good.

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

And we're like brothers and hanging out and all that kind of stuff.

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 like one of those things that it was a really, I don't think it was the best way to do it, but it was the best way we all knew how to do it, including them.

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 I think like what I would have done is, and I would do this again now, like, let's say I was finding a company with someone that just wasn't working out.

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

I would go to this group and say, listen, this isn't working out.

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

you might've thought this was going to work out this way and you didn't know.

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 it was going to work out differently as well.

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

Like, let's recap this.

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

Let's figure this out.

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

I think what's fair is this amount for you.

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

I think this is fair for me since I'm the one going forward.

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

Like, let's do that.

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

And if they said no, I would be like, okay, well then I'm going to leave and I'm going to basically do the same thing or something similar.

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

Like we, at one point, like this is details that have never come out.

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

Like,

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

And I don't think we needed to do this, but we did.

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

Fakou didn't sign his employment agreement for a year because we were worried that we were going to have to take the source code.

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

And some of this is basically just building contingencies in case these guys didn't go for something.

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 would have been so much easier to just have a very mature conversation.