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Zeb Evans

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
429 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

But if you have 5 million convertible note cap, you would expect normally to raise a series A much sooner, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

Much sooner at like a 40, 50 million valuation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

And then it becomes realistic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

When you raise that 200, those convertible note investors get a bit much bigger portion of the company than they would have previously.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

Our M&A strategy is, I don't want to say too much about it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

We'll have some announcements to make soon.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

But we only really focus on things that can be part of our core product, core ecosystem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

We are a unified productivity platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

Well, so we're not looking at competitors to buy where we would have to roll up teams and roll up products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

But what we are looking at is somebody that these companies that built something that we were going to build that would take us six months, a year to build, we're buying time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

And so if we can buy time and find people that are within our culture, with our values, but that also know how to move really quickly and have built something awesome.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

then that's something that we are open to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

And like I said, we'll have some announcements to make very soon.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

We will be far beyond $100 million next year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

Oh, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

That's close.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

No, no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

Our M&A strategy is... We don't focus on the revenue part of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

Our M&A strategy is purely product focused.