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Ryan Holmes

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
266 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

And you're right, agency is an incredible place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

When I talk to young entrepreneurs, they feel like, I want to do a business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

I don't know what it is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

I often will tell them, go do services work for a while.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

Somebody's going to bring you a billion dollar problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

And when you hear the problems that people bring you,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

Go connect the dots.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

See if there's other people that have the same problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

And when you find a problem that a lot of people have, that's, that's where you, you, you know, you get paid, you get paid for solving pain for people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

Yeah, so we've done, oh, wow, you're testing me here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

The first round was 1-6 on a 5-something pre, 5-6 pre, I think.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

No, at that time, it was just, this is just four people were even doing notes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

Well, we're granddaddies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

We're almost 10 years old.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

That's amazing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

So, yeah, it was just a price round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

Yeah, to date, it's north of 200.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

You can go to our Crunchbase and track it all down if you're that curious.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

But I would say that a big chunk of the โ€“ we got to cash flow positive very quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

It was important for me to start driving revenue out of the business quickly.