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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

Nothing wrong with the ZAs.

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

I'm not knocking the ZAs.

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

I'm just pointing that out.

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

Correct.

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

The other 200 were all kinds of bizarre one-off situations where it was like, this person only works on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but doesn't work every other week.

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

I mean, they were hiring so fast that the people they were taking on weren't necessarily the best staff for the company.

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

Uh, a couple of things.

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

The reason I wanted to buy the company is mostly because I didn't believe that company should fail.

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

I was a huge fan of the model.

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

It's a great company.

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

It solved a really important problem, and I didn't want to see a company like that fail.

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

And that wasn't me just being kind of like, oh, I'm writing in to save the day.

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

It was more like every now and again, a company should fail.

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

When WeWork took a header...

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

I mean, I don't hate flex office space, but I did look at what they were doing.

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

Like, dude, you guys are a little over your toes, right?

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

You probably need to be taken down a notch.

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

But this wasn't a business where I was like, oh, what a shit business.

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

I was just like, it's a great business.

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

They just missed the mark on it.