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Ryan Urban

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
730 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

We've acquired five companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

When you acquire companies, you don't want to sell equity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

You don't want to dilute your company to acquire companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

We've made some acquisitions, including a major one last year, and they've worked out really well, acquiring great people, sometimes technology people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

And last year, we did both.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

So that's really good for that, I think, especially because you know there's going to be a particular web machine that comes behind it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

So you don't want to just raise around to go do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

You might want to raise that around to do growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

And now we're going to do a big one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

But we deployed very- How much are you raising right now?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

What are you targeting?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

For a company of our size, say north of, say, well north of nine figures in software scale, put it that way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

I would say raising around.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

Yeah, we're doing strategic financing because we don't need to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

We're good capital-wise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

Are you profitable?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

Some quarters of the case.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

This year, we actually did end up last year profitable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

But this year, we made a big R&D investments this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Wunderkind Raising $100m+ at $1b+ Valuation As They Eye IPO Market in 2023

And next year, it's really about expanding.