Pascal Levy-Garboua

Founder & CEO, Noosa Labs · 1 appearance on the record.

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Pascal Levy-Garboua is the founder and CEO of Noosa Labs, a holding company that acquires, operates, and scales bootstrapped micro-SaaS businesses. Previously, he was an early executive at Checkr and co-founded VirtuOz.

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Levy-Garboua: SaaS Will Shift to a 'Record Label' Aggregator Model

“I think, I mean, I would say that one thing that I see, I believe, is that there will be more and more people that will have, that will be operating in multiple SaaS. Either SaaS that they've built, or SaaS that they've bought, or both, but, like, I, there is …”

Pascal Levy-Garboua Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 27:42 Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Pascal Levy-Garboua, CEO of Noosa Labs

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Levy-Garboua: Missed more unicorns full-time investing than as side angel

“I missed more unicorns a year where I was only doing investing than all the years where I was doing investing on the side. And either working at a startup or building my own.”

Pascal Levy-Garboua Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 6:16 Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Pascal Levy-Garboua, CEO of Noosa Labs

Insight

Levy-Garboua: Stagnant or declining SaaS targets pose severe hidden failure risk

“What is hard is when the business is not growing anymore or declining, despite having a lot of inbound or being very profitable, because you don't know why, what is broken and how, and you don't know how much time you'll have until the thing is immediately bro…”

Pascal Levy-Garboua Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 10:24 Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Pascal Levy-Garboua, CEO of Noosa Labs

Insight

Levy-Garboua: Bootstrapped SaaS Quality Directly Mirrors the Founder's Psyche

“The more meticulous a founder, like a seller is, the better the business. And so today I spend way more time understanding the psyche of a founder, of a seller, because I, in a way, for bootstrap founders, the business reflects the founder very, very closely. …”

Pascal Levy-Garboua Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 16:29 Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Pascal Levy-Garboua, CEO of Noosa Labs

Insight

Levy-Garboua: Debt-Financed SaaS Acquisitions Require Multi-Year Growth Levers

“Debt for these businesses is very expensive and you need growth to pay for the price of the debt in a way. And so you want to make sure that what you're buying is not going to Have one last path, and then go downhill from there, despite everything that you can…”

Pascal Levy-Garboua Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 18:46 Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Pascal Levy-Garboua, CEO of Noosa Labs

Disclosure

Levy-Garboua: Noosa Labs targets bootstrapped SaaS with $200k-$800k ARR

“So we look at businesses that are between 208 hundred K of ARR. We look at businesses that are typically bootstrapped No team beyond the founders or maybe a few contractors here and there.”

Pascal Levy-Garboua Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 9:01 Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Pascal Levy-Garboua, CEO of Noosa Labs

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Levy-Garboua: Noosa Labs doubled Sendtric's MRR in under two years

“It was one of the larger acquisitions we made both in terms of, it's actually our largest acquisition in terms of enterprise value. It was a good size. We've been able to grow it, grow MRR to X at least already in less than two years.”

Pascal Levy-Garboua Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 11:55 Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Pascal Levy-Garboua, CEO of Noosa Labs

What-if

Levy-Garboua: WhatsApp cease-and-desist killed Noosa Labs' biggest potential revenue success

“Had it not happened, I think it would have been our biggest success today, revenue wise. Like, I think we were ready to 10 X this business at least.”

Pascal Levy-Garboua Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 14:28 Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Pascal Levy-Garboua, CEO of Noosa Labs

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Pascal Levy-Garboua, CEO of Noosa Labs	Jul 3, 2024	22m

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