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Scott Brandley

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
111 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

We got to the end of the negotiation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

So the negotiation in Goldman Sachs had their worst month in history.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

And they just decided to shut down the deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

It was $12 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

I think they had part of it and Goldman was going to come and back the rest.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

I don't know if I want to say cause I don't want my competition to hear.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

So the company's very, um, it's, it's, it's very profitable at this point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

Way more than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

So what we've been doing is taking the money out and investing it into other companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

So because we've been developing software for so long,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

we actually have a very specific process that we follow to validate ideas and then to build them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

And so, um, we know going through that validation process, we're pretty confident what business, um, businesses we want to get into and how, how they're going to turn out over time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

So that's kind of the determining factor that, uh, the businesses that we are going into in the future.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

Everything that has, so it's gotta be sexy,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

It's got to be sticky.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

It's got to have recurring revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

We have to be able to sell it in a call center.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed

It has to be able to be developed within six months.