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PV Cannon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
141 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

We are optimizing for a 12 month payback.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

I mean, right now we're at that and, you know, we hired a new chief revenue officer last year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

So his first thing is, let me go get the, you know, things stabilized.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

We'll relook these metrics as, you know, we want to pump up the growth level, then we need to get more aggressive, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

That's a good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

I think, you know, it's about what the aspirations of the founders and the management team is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

I think, you know, an IPO is more kind of like what the team wants to do and what I would like to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

And, you know, we've built the company for the long run.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

So it's not about, you know, get into some stage and get out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

I mean, you know, as a profitable company, you know, when I meet any private equity investor, they're very interested, like you said, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

Because it's kind of a sweet spot, size, scale, profitability.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

So, you know, a lot of the problem solving has already been done, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

The question is, how much value can you extract all on your own versus teaming up with private equity, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

So we believe, you know,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

we can extract a lot of value and then continue to serve our customers better by just being standalone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

You know, we'll do it if there is a good reason, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

A good reason could be, you know, let's say we want to acquire someone in the space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

That's interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

And it's going to cost a lot of money, you know,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back

let's say it's going to cost 300, 400 million, right?