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Thomas Harding

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
146 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

Um, so I mentioned there's a lot of new channels opening up to publish stories too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

So there's opportunities for us there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

So we're about 20 at the moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

Nope.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

So we're split.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

We originally started in New Zealand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

So we've still got half our development team down there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

We've got some sales and customer success down there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

We've got a team of salespeople here in New York.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

And then we have the rest of our development team based in Berlin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

Yeah, we've raised a few rounds of capital at this point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

So we raised early 2015, late 2017, and then just a couple of months back as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

Yeah, I think the thing for us at that point was how quickly stories were starting to pick up speed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

So we did bootstrap for all of our first year, basically said, we don't want to take cash, we want to prove this out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

And then I think once we realized the way things were projecting and particularly Snapchat during that early phase, they were going up into the right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

And we knew that if we wanted to be at the front of this market, we needed to raise a bit of capital so we could build up some of that sales and marketing infrastructure ahead of where the market was at and be ready once it came right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

Um, I don't know off the top of my head, but, uh, it's been an interesting year for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

I'll sort of, I'll put it that way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

Yeah.