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Pavel Dolezal

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
199 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

We were just experimenting with it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

A year ago, we actually, we were in 2020, we actually ended 4.7.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

2019, we actually ended 4.1.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

And 2018, we actually ended 2.4.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

So we were... You were what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

Sorry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

No, I said that we were growing, you know, like 2018, 2019, we were growing about 60%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

But then the COVID year, we got some people actually a little bit down.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

There was some COVID effect, especially in the hospitality and the enterprise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

And then we started to grow again.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

No, it's all bootstrap until now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

You know, for us, it was actually a choice when we started because we saw that we were a little bit ahead of the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

So we're like, hey, we actually need to experiment with this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

We need to see how to do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

And we had customers who paid us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

So we were creating a mini brand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

in the Central and Eastern Europe and customers were totally happy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

The toughest thing with that is, but I think it's actually an advantage, especially in the beginning, you have to really juggle your resources, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

So you can't do five different experiments.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

But to be honest, when you are small, you cannot do five different experiments because your organization is not really set up for it.