Ryan Holmes

It was $160 million, which is the size of many IPOs.

It was a paintball company.

I started my first business in grade 10.

In between grade 10 and grade 11, paintball company.

I convinced my parents they had a little bit of property.

I built a paintball course on it and bought paintball guns and paintballs and started the whole thing.

It was obviously a really fun high school business.

So my best, so this is why being an entrepreneur can spoil you.

My best day I made, uh, about $6,000 in one day.

And so, you know, how do you, how do you go back to like a nine to five job after that?

That was top line.

But, you know, I had very little expenses on that.

You have to pay for your paintballs, pay for whatever else.

Exactly.

Yeah.

It, uh, it can really spoil people.

And, you know, I think that that's, it's one of the things, once you get the bug and you get bit by it, it's, it's really hard to go back to, you know, working in, in quote, quote, the regular world.

So Hootsuite is a SaaS business.

It's a subscription model.

We have over 16 million users.