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Steve Pockross

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
146 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

We are fully bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

We have no capital, much less additional capital at our hands.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

And so I think that comes with pros and cons.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

In this crisis, it is a particularly good time to be a bootstrap company because we had to learn to live lean for a really long time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

And so the one access to capital that I'm looking at and I'm waiting for a call right now is from the Payment Protection Loan Program.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

which the government made available.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

We're all trying to figure out how that can give us an extra level of assuredness to keep the staff that we have for as long as humanly possible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

So first of all, I learned.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

Thank you so much for sending out proactively guidance to your audience on how to do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

I learned more from you than I did from the government on how to do this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

I am in this very interesting point where I am currently looking at my phone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

and waiting for my banker to call me to do the application over the phone because she personally has 800 applications she's trying to submit on her laptop today and didn't know as of yesterday what the process would be.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

Where with BOK Financial, they've done a great job of just immediately following up in a way that I think is going to create a hell of a week for those guys.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

It's going to be crazy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

And I do like their approach of doing more sooner and knowing that they're going to accept mistakes that they're going to make versus the opposite of making sure they got it perfect.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

I do have a funny.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

Do you have time for a tangent?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

In 1999, I was living in Brazil and I had to apply for a cell phone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

And at the time, Brazilians like state run phone company was a total disaster.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

And so they would give you a giant phone.