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Stephen Schneider

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
280 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

They have 20 locations, but each of those locations, they charge millions of dollars for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

So we don't really need a lot of locations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

So it really varies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

Put this on a timeline for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

When did you launch the company?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

So the company was founded in 2003, actually, and it was founded as more of an application development framework in the kind of business intelligence space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

But it really didn't start growing until about 2010.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

It was a bootstrap company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

It did not have a lot of resources to spend.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

So it was, you know, three to five million dollars of revenue working with customers that came in through the Web with very small transaction sizes, five to ten thousand dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

And in 2010, that's where we really kind of found our niche of working with application teams.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

So again, principally software companies, but often enterprises that look like software companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

And that's when we started growing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

Yeah, so let's talk about that for a second.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

So we are not a SaaS business, okay?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

Let's talk about what that means though.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

We often work with companies that are SaaS companies to embed within their application, but our software is deployed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

Up until about 2010, and actually really until recently, and really about the 2015 timeframe, about half of our business was perpetual.