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Steve Hartert

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
368 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

Where I came into the picture,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

It was about two years ago, Eideken Tank, our CEO, approached me and kind of laid out the JotForm story, told me where the company had been, where he would like to take the company, and basically made such a compelling story to me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

and, you know, told me such a, where they wanted to, you know, really the future where they wanted to go, it was very difficult to say no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

And I thought, I talked it over with my family and we said, you know, it's one of these opportunities that come along probably once in a lifetime.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

And if you're going to jump and grab that ring, now's the time to do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

And here we are.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

Yes, yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

He did give me some equity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

He was very generous on the equity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

So, you know, obviously that's very helpful when you want to sit there and keep building a company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

But, you know, it was also he gave me the challenge.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

He gives me the freedom.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

And as he does everybody here, I think really to kind of just do it the way you think you need to do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

You know, we're not my no one in this company is micromanaged.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

We try to be a very.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

How many are you?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

We are about 75 people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

support people, the marketing team, obviously, and such like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

No, we've got people actually based all over the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

We've got our headquarters is based here in San Francisco, but we also have a programming group that's based out of Ankara, Turkey.