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Ryan Urban

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
730 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

And people are going to either invest in me and the other co-founders and what we've done.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

It's not going to come down to a deck with a CAC number in it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

We're about 85% New York.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

So we have a few engineers, a few people in biz dev.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

We have someone in London.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

And we're going to open up an office in UK and Germany this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

Um, we, we're, we've always run a fundamentally sound business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

So we, I think we were probably too profitable at one point and we weren't investing enough in growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

Uh, and now, now we, now we, we operate, um, yeah, basically, basically profitable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

Yeah, well, I mean, your month-to-month profitability has nothing... When you raise money, it has nothing to do with your... Just typically, software companies are not profitable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

They all lose money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

But then you have a company like Atlassian.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

Atlassian was profitable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

They had raised money before they IPO'd.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

Then they IPO'd.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

We just had a different business model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

We raised very little money compared to where our customer base, our revenue is because we are profitable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

But it's not like we had an extra three and a half million dollars sitting in the bank to pay for a security deposit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

So that's it's it's it's not to have that paid.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
From $0 to $17,000,000 In 2015 With NYC Based SaaS Company, EP 253: Ryan Urban

No, no, that that's no, that that's we don't need to go into accounting.