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Will Schroter

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
994 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

And so to scale a company that fast, um, was very unusual.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

Um, and yeah,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

For me, as we're moving into this, I'm 25, 26, 27 myself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

I have no sense for how big of an accomplishment this is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

This is just all happening so fast.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

And I had no other experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

So in my mind, the only professional experience I had in my 20s as an adult

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

was this rocket ship.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

And I think the reason I say that is because often early in our careers when we do really well, it's really hard to calibrate and understand how valuable or how fortunate being that young and that successful is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

I only understood about half of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

Half of me was like, well, hey, I was a poor kid who came into this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

I'd never expected this to happen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

And the other half of me was like, well, maybe this is just how good I am and this is how all my stuff's going to happen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

And again, that's cocky and arrogant.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

I just didn't know any better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

And I think that happens a lot, especially now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

So I'm trying to think back, but, um, I would say rough numbers and I could be a little bit off than not a lot of it off is we're probably doing about 150 to 175 million in real money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

Um, on a net income of about 25 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

It's great.