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Shawn Riegsecker

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
233 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

We've managed to get there on about $50 million in capital raised.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

We've bought three companies along the way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

And so a lot of people say, well, are you SaaS?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

And do you want the high gross margin business?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

Are you services?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

And how do you value that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

I've always looked...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

at our business in two ways.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

The service company, one, has actually allowed us to fund the development of the platform, and two, because they're using it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

They're kind of the first folks through the door, so we actually can build it perfect for them, make sure it works right, and then we can distribute it to our customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

I think the service company, although, yeah, it's not a high gross margin business by any stretch of the imagination,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

it's really helped fund the company and make sure we build great software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

So now you got to remember, we've been in business quite a while.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

And I think, as you know, businesses will go through different life cycles.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

So early on in the process, how I started up, so I started the company, didn't have any money, didn't know what I was doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

And so I figured out, well, I had to figure out how to sell and get clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

At the time, back in 2002, 2005, ad agencies were struggling just to do digital nationally.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

So the first step was that ad agencies would outsource their local digital buying.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

So newspaper websites, TV websites, radio websites.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down

And that's the hardest and most complex piece of the industry.