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Russ Hawkins

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
214 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

That's correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

Vic is not the point on the deal, but Jonah and Vic work very closely together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

It's a little more interactive and collaborative in terms of what we do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

I've produced kind of a roadmap of acquisitions of directions that I want to go.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

And, you know, my initial list of names has been there's been some of them that fall into the category that you described where I've had developed a relationship with these things, but with these companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

But there's a team of people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

Quadrilla has a team of people that help me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

They do outreach.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

They do outreach and they help me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

And then as far as the actual details of the acquisition, I'm primarily using their money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

So the divisional labor is I come up with the strategic ideas and run the companies and they work the details on the financing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

That was, I don't know, six years ago, five years ago, something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

Good boy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

Well, in the new platform, it was probably 2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

We stopped selling the older platform as soon as I made the pivot in 2013.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

Uh, but, uh, we had hit a million dollars with that product back in, uh, let's see, 2009, I guess.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

2009.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

My favorite book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $30m ARR Battle: How 1 VC Forced a 5x Exit When Restaurant SaaS CEO Wanted to Keep Building

Yep.