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Steve Benson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
518 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

This is not... There's no... What do they call it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

I'm not... None of these are personal guaranteed loans.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

So it's not like going to First Republic or Silicon Valley Bank.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

They'll make you PG that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

So... Dashboard, which I thought would be useful for people to see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

So they would give me... They would give me...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

2 million almost 3 million in debt and i've taken 2.2 so i could get that like i could get that just by going in and pressing this button and what i what i've actually been doing is um emailing them and saying hey i want exactly this much because i don't that i don't want just all of it i want you know i want to tranche it out that's why i've done six tranches with them last year and a half

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

If there was a slide to take a picture of, it's this one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

You've got to checklist this if you ever get debt.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

Are there liquidity terms?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

This means like, hey, I just brought a million bucks from you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

One of my terms was you always have to have a half million bucks in the bank.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

It's like, well, thanks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

So you actually loaned me a half million bucks, but I'm paying for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

a full million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

I appreciate that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

Um, are there any EBITDA or MRR covenants?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

Like meaning like did your, if you, if you slow down in growth or if your profitability drops, you owe all the money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

Um, that's, that's actually more common than you'd think.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers

Uh,