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Whitson Gordon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
180 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

We'd like to have you come on full time after you graduate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

And so obviously I was ecstatic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

I jumped at the chance, started off as a contributor to finish off my year of college.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

You know, after I graduated, I went full time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

And, you know, we were a really small staff then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

How many?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

There's probably, when I started as an intern, there were probably four other people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

Uh, I would, uh, weekly or monthly, whatever the frequency, you know, monthly we'd measure uniques.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

I can look at weekly too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

And I would say, let's see when you joined, what were uniques in 2009, our weekly uniques were something like, you know, one and a half million, um, maybe a little bit more monthly uniques were something like, um, I'm sorry, not one and a half.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

monthly uniques were probably about 4 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

And now Lifehacker is pulling in, you know, 15 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

And that's just in the U.S.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

I left Lifehacker about three weeks ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

Yeah, I might have those.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

Yeah, something like a million to, yeah, now they're at, you know, 3 million uniques.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

Just from the U.S.?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

Per week.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

Yeah, that's just from the U.S.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Lifehacker Went from 1m to 10m Monthly Uniques Fast with Whitson Gordon EP 187

I know.