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Ryan Buckley

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
306 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

Um, I interviewed him for the parallel entrepreneur.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

So he knew that I was, I was paralleling at the time and he's like, you're not going to parallel it might've seen more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

I sold it to another private equity firm in Texas.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

That relationship kind of went south and they've been a bit litigious.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

So I won't say exactly who they are, but just the very high level thing that kind of went south was they were on sort of a payment plan that they stopped selling.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

They decided they weren't going to do the payments anymore.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

So I ended up getting about half of what the terms were on that one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

And I was kind of like, you know, shame on me for just not getting all the money up front.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

I wish I'd known that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

Yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

Neighborhood Six Figures.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

Well, yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

And shadow equity also means that...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

they uh so you know xenon doesn't want to write gms into the cap table it's just uh just overhead just kind of hassle so it's essentially it's a side letter that says uh if and when there's uh there's a liquidity event you get x percent

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

Um, so that, this is like a thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

And I don't know if this is a term that they made up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

Um, but, uh, but you know, if and when liquidity happens, that's what happens.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.

Yeah.