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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.

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.

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.

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 think each GM just kind of negotiates 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.

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.

The thesis that was there when the founders sold was still there when I sold.

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 that thesis is that specifically SDK intelligence is a niche market that's worth a lot.

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.

It's very valuable to a handful of people in the mobile data industry.

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 basically we've kind of cycled through all of the customers.

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.

There's a handful of players in this business, but I mean, I think more to the point, and this is something that you've brought up in your podcast in the past, you've had conversations like this.

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.

It's essentially a feature versus a platform.

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 MightySignal very much like really good at the single feature about what it does, breaking apart apps, looking for SDKs, tracking it in the database.

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.

It's not...

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.

really a full-blown company.

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.

There's just not enough meat on that bone.

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.

It would have taken a tremendous amount of investment for us to compete against the likes of App Annie.

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're kind of the elephant in the room.

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.

Apptopia is another big one, really nice company, great product, but they have all of these other data sets in addition to SDK intelligence.

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 that was basically why they sold.

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.

We kind of figured we'd maybe hit saturation on a pure SDK Intel market.