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1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

FromSaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders


1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

FromSaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

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Length:
18 minutes
Released:
Jun 22, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Max Israel is Founder & CEO of Customerville (https://www.customerville.com/) ? Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 – Nathan's introduction to today's show 0:30 – Why Max founded the company 15 years ago to scratch his own itch 1:30 – How he grew the business without venture capital 2:20 – Why they made the decision to pivot eight years ago 3:05 – How the average customer pays them $250k annually 4:05 – Why they decided to maintain bootstrapped 4:30 – How they funded the business with a small retail chain 5:30 – Why they serve more than 50 customers globally 6:00 – How they are doing around $1M in MRR right now 7:30 – Why they are growing 50%+ year over year 8:50 – How they've kept gross logo churn below 10% annually 10:00 – Why they are focusing on driving expansion revenue with new features going forward 10:15 – How their team has grown to around 40 full-time employees 10:45 – Why they spent up to $400k on Google AdWords in the past 12:10 – How they are evaluating new plans for growing their sales team 13:00 – Why they aren't in acquisition talks right now 14:00 – The Famous Five
Released:
Jun 22, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Over 10M founders, CEO's, and investors have downloaded this 15 minute daily podcast from Nathan Latka. Each day Latka interviews a software (SaaS) CEO and gets them to share how they've grown (or not) so fast all backed by hard data points. To date, over 1000 CEO's have been interviewed that together do over $6b in revenue, have raised over $5b, and employ more than 180,000 employees. The magazine for CEO's: http://nathanlatka.com/magazine The Book for CEO's: http://nathanlatka.com/bookamazon