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Phil Liu

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320 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Do you pay out dividends to your team?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Do you reinvest in the product?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

What do you do?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Yeah, well, that's a good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

So at first, that thing had grown, so it's not a question we had.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Right now, obviously, with the numbers we have, it's starting to be crazy to leave the money in the bank, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

So, well, first, we decided to start paying ourselves a more competitive wage.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

And we're starting to think about how to reinvest that in more growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

But right now it's really pretty much just sitting in the bank.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

What would you value the business at today?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

If someone came to you and said, Phil, I want to, I want to buy the whole business for 10 million bucks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Do you sell?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

No, we, we, no, because we had, we were approached three times and by big, let's say unicorns and more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

And so the three time was mostly for Acquire because I think what we built with a team of four, even if we're like now we had some really good milestone in revenue, but like two, three years ago, it was still really impressive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Just the fact that the product was completed and full featured a version on all platforms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

So we were approached just to get Acquire and we all always said no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

What was the largest offer that you turned out?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

It was equity and equity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

I don't know if it means much, but it was 30 millions in valuation from that business.