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Patrick Shaw

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
464 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

And so this is our growth track.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

I just went to last year's revenues, which was 2.9 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

Our goal this year is just over 4 million, and we're just a little bit behind that target.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

But, you know, we're having really steady growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

We're bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

I did go to...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

A friend of mine, and I didn't, again, I knew nothing about SAF.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

So I go to this private equity guy who's a friend and I think, well, you invest in companies, you've got to be able to help me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

So I go to him and I'm like, well, I'll give you 10% of the company for nothing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

Now, it turns out he knew nothing about SaaS, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

He just invested in a lot of different kind of companies and billionaire.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

And he's like, well, I'll give you $300,000 for 20%, which is a lot of equity, but I'm like, I'm clueless and I need somebody to guide me through some of this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

So I'm like, okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

Now, I will tell you in a little bit how I got a million dollars for zero equity shortly, which was one of the important things for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

But sometimes ignorance is bliss.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

Anyway, some of this worked out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

But I gave them that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

They provided no value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

But they're still good friends.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Building Culture, Processes and Accountablity as Remote Team.

So anyway, we just started building.