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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

And I was like, really?

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

Like, you're going to give me like...

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

300k.

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

I make a million bucks, two million bucks a year, 300k isn't a lot of money, man.

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

Like, you know, because real companies, they'll let you lever up, you know, pretty aggressively, right, to one turn or something at least, but

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

And so that's, I guess that's the real key difference is how much they'll give you at what rate.

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

And a lot of the lenders also had a really short duration, which now I'm really ruining my slides, but that's okay.

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

All right, these are my slides.

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

Yeah.

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

65 and the other co-founder owns like 20 and then a third is there a dad there's a dad there's a there's there's a dad that i've squeezed money out of him too yeah well only one dad one dad in as well but point is you've kept control yeah i mean i i think we sold 10 of the company and that was like super early on before i even thought of debt but that and you've already tried to buy them out i imagine um

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

No.

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

They're all really smart.

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

They're like private equity guys.

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

They're not going to be like, oh, sure, here, for 2x.

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

That's me.

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

Love you to death.

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

Take it away.

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

You know me, man.

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

All right.

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

There's not like a coffee spot up here.