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Ryan Hungate

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
82 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

So we kind of got together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

I was practicing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

Zach was having a really successful career on the tech investing side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

And we were kind of just it was kind of like limping along.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

It was kind of like a halfway project.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

And then we were kind of saying, you know, this is going to be big if we put our whole selves into it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

But, you know, what's going to be that signal?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

And when we applied to AngelPad, we were like, okay, if we get in, this is what we're going to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

And boom, we got in and ended up, you know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

We kind of saw one of those moments where we thought that we could be in every single doctor's office.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

And when you start doing the math, and if that's a possibility, which we know it is now, the math adds up really quick where it makes that $500,000 look kind of puny compared to what might come in the future.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

That's when you quit your jobs?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

Yeah, that was when we put our jobs out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

September of 2015, we came out here to New York.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

And it all took off from there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

Ended up coming out of AngelPad really strong.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

Was able to raise, Zach mentioned our investment partners, but basically was able to raise from really exciting people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup

And that's taken us to help take us to the next level as well.