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Shawn Livermore

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
108 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

I met with some of the largest players in my industry, Upwork, which was formerly Odesk and Elance, met with several other different large consulting firms, some Japanese firms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

I mean,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

We had various different discussions, probably at least 10 different meetings.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

And the end result was that even though there was revenue and even though we proved our business models in the final business models that we had, that it did not represent sufficient intellectual property that was differentiated enough for an asset acquisition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

And we didn't have enough full-time employees.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

Well, actually, I'm in the process of putting together some material that may go into a book and kind of looking at all the different options.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

But I'm working for a company, a great company, raised several hundred million dollars in Phoenix called Carvana.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

So we sell used cars on the Internet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

And we're doing a great job.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

I have a team I'm leading out there and I'm closely connected to some of the C-level executives there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

And so excited about what they're doing, excited about helping them on that journey.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

Then, you know, see what happens next.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

I'm on Twitter at Shawnee Pants, and you can also hit me up on Medium, Shawnee Pants, I believe, as well, and seanlivermore at gmail.com.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

You can just shoot me an email.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

But also looking at putting together a book called Obscurity, and the Obscurity book is all about โ€“ it'll probably be obscuritybook.com if I have it, but โ€“

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

it'll be all about the being in the weeds as an entrepreneur being deep into the realm of the unknown and going 10 feet deep into the mud and kind of all the different stories in history about people who have come out of obscurity come out of nothingness and the vague intrigue of their research and produced really magnanimous type of output so that's that's what i'm working on as well

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

Oh, tipping point, Malcolm Gladwell.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

Yes, I'm looking at Ford's CEO and how he's responding to the political satire that he's enduring.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

I love Acuity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore

I really, let's see, gosh, so many.