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Will Bressman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
145 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

And I think we ended up accomplishing that because...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

For us, it gave us that starting point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

I think he was very happy with the outcome.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

No, no, we stayed in touch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

And he's a great guy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

And I don't think he'll feel that way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

But no, it was, you know, again, these are cliches, but it was really sort of a win-win scenario.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

We partnered with a private equity firm here in New York called Aquiline Capital Partners.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

And the idea really with joining with them was to give us that next phase of capital and really kind of expand our capabilities and our ability to serve the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

So it was sort of a transaction, so to speak, but with the idea of continuing to scale what we're doing even more than where we were today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

Yeah, I think they were excited and we were excited to be able to do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

Obviously, you know, we got the backing of those people when we just had a hope and a dream.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

So it was nice to be able to reward them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

But I think for us, we were also realizing that to really capture what the opportunity was in this industry, joining with someone that had a little bit more industry expertise and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

the ability to kind of scale it going forward was the right move for the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

So, you know, I'll use the same cliche.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

It had that kind of win-win feel of the original search investors felt very pumped, but I think we felt like this positions us to go forward in a very nice and exciting manner.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

Yeah, definitely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk

I really think very...