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Richard Rabins

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
160 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

And there is an implicit conflict of interest.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

You get a valuation from a recognized valuation firm.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

I forget the details, but yeah, something along those lines.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

So we were able to buy the core business back and focus very much on the upcoming mobile market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

And the reason why mobile is interesting, it's a difficult problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

Building business apps for mobile devices is a lot harder than building apps for regular devices because you don't have signal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

You've got a very small screen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

You don't have a keyboard.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

You don't have a mouse.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

And typically the operator of the app has lost the use of one hand because they're holding the phone in one hand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

So they've only got five fingers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

And so building apps for mobile is actually a lot harder.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

And so now all of a sudden you get this sort of โ€“

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

big issue that's arisen is... Yeah, Richard, you're in a hot space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

I can't give you the exact number, but, you know, we...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

We got a fair price.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

We bought it back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

And essentially what we were buying back was some core technology and the customer list.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

And also we basically, the core developers who had gone with the original sale came back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1266 How To Spin a Business Out of a Public Company

So in fact, we were restarting the party, so to speak.