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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

You know, now is the time.

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

You know, we have proven the product.

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

People are happy with us.

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

Now is the time to actually accelerate.

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

Well, next for the product, from the product perspective, we are actually coming with some new features for more for the developers, you know, within DevOps kind of like pipelines.

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

But from the company perspective, we are actually thinking, you know, what to do next because like we have now, we have cash, we have for foreseeable months and we are generating, you know, more and more money.

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

So we'll see, we'll see how it turns out next six months to be honest.

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

You know, we got approached by a lot of people that, you know, like,

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

Until now, we were comfortable with bootstrapping.

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

If we see that we can deploy more capital than we actually have for market flow operations, we'll think about it then.

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

So if you say bottom line, you mean like all the expenses or do you define everything?

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

Yeah.

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

Okay.

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

So, uh, uh, we, we actually, until last year, end of last year, we were profitable, like, uh, and we, we had like 600,000 profit.

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

And, uh, we, we started, when we started hiring all those new people in June, July, we actually made the decision that we will go, uh, within the next six months, we will not be profitable and reinvest all of that because we were hoarding the cash from last year.

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

So as of now, you know, like we are minus, but it's, it's, uh,

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

It's something that we made by decision to invest.

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

Well, apparently, you know, like the normal ones, you know, you would say actually like some Waltons made in America or the, you know, book from the guys that made Aldi, because that's really, you know, like people who made the business from the bottom up into large, large scales.

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

Yeah, I was thinking about it.

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

I actually do follow a lot of founders.