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Warren Jolly

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
149 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

Here's our budget.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

If you can hit our target KPIs, we'll actually spend more than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

And our incentive is really to make those advertisers successful so that

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

The more that they spend, the more that we can charge as a management fee to deploy those dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

We do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

So we manage our opportunity costs really carefully.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

And that's one of the things that has helped us be successful and grow rapidly in the last two years is just being great at saying no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

So first year revenue in 2014 was around 4 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

It was more so having a network of customers that we knew.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

So we spent planning, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

There was pre-planning before we actually created the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

Ah, okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

And so my prior background, as I mentioned, has always been in performance marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

And that pre-planning really allowed us to hit the ground running in the first year of business and be able to secure that type of growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

It wasn't a fluke and it wasn't just luck.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

There was actually a lot of foresight that went into that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

Yeah, it was it was it was very, very hard work in that first year and a half before the business even existed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

I'm just figuring out, like, what is our product market fit?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 333: How Did He Make $15 Million from Managing Ads in 2015?

Who are we going after?