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Tim Schumacher

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
233 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Yes, we have a few small investors, but first and foremost, yeah, we're just kind of a going concern.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Also, we don't flip our companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

I think it's really important.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

If someone sells a business to SaaS Group,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

We intend to run this business indefinitely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

We want to preserve the legacy of the founder.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

We want to preserve the name, preserve what made the company strong.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Sure, we're going to improve on a lot of things where we think there are some holes to fill, but we really cherish those individual small companies which are filling a niche which most SaaS founders provide.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Um, and we don't intend to sell the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

So also there's no, there's no fund lifetime of, Hey, within seven, seven to 10 years, we have to sell the companies again, those sorts of things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Um, we're just happy keeping the companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

I know there was one lead, but there were mainly a lot of individuals.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Yeah, it's complicated because obviously some of that is always trapped in subsidiaries and everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

But we always strive for profit margins somewhere 20% to 30%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

No, that's a great question, but we want to see the potential to get there, but it doesn't have to be there on day one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

So we've bought some super profitable businesses, some businesses where there's basically just one founder doing all the work with a 95% profit margin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

We've seen those, but we've also seen insanely unprofitable businesses, two even which we bought out of bankruptcy, which we then restructured.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

and obviously everything in between.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

But yeah, no, as long as there's a decent ARR and it's a great product, I think by now we can live with anything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Cross Talon out of French bankruptcy and Zenloop out of German bankruptcy.