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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 we kind of got to bubble them to the top.

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

We didn't have cross product at the time.

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

At the time, we were still in the process of kind of getting the products on and trying to fulfill our thesis of would we be able to buy enough products to build kind of this master platform?

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

And so any guesses we would have made back then would have been totally guesses.

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

A lot of it was just taking a look at how much had Dan raised because we knew we had to pay back the investors.

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

We looked at how much could Clarity make?

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

You know, you kind of start doing your A, B, and C scenarios of what the company could be and start to say, hey, you know, A is ridiculous.

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

It'll never get there.

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

You know, C is too low.

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

I have no idea.

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

You don't remember?

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

Okay.

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

No, not at all.

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

But I remember, you know, Dan and I, we went back and forth a little, but I think

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

Because Dan and I had known each other for a long time, it wasn't a very trying negotiation.

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

More of it was, hey, we want to make sure that you feel good about the sale, but we also want to make sure that we're not left holding the bag.

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

And so, again, as we're trying to do these scenarios, if Dan's saying, look, this thing could easily do $100 million, I'm like, Dan...

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

Anything could easily do a hundred million, but you have to actually do a hundred million.

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

Right.

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

So like here's worst case.