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Russ Perry

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
249 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

I haven't been too aggressive about that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

I was talking to one company out of South Dakota of all places before COVID hit and just put the ice on that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

Yeah, well, when you're ready to not have to even mess with that anymore, we'll be here for you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

I think with Fiverr, they actually tried to buy us twice last year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

And they were on premium.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

But what comes down to is when you need one every week or one every day, and you just want to send the info to someone and not have them give them a brief, not have it go through the commerce checkout process or sync it to your Asana, you just put the details in there and it zaps right over to Design Pickle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

It's not that high.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

I know that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

So I must have gotten something off in that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

I'm the creative guy, remember?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

Yeah, I know it's not the cheapest out there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

It was just the easiest for us at the time because we are not a pure SaaS business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

We're a tech-enabled service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

So it was harder for us to try to find other lending that would have been when we were smaller.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

The first round was $3 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

The second round was $20 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

And then I said no to both.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

The second round was what year?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

Last year?