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Christian Owens

8 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 26, 2020 by Christian Owens · across every show →

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Jan 26, 2020
Disclosure
Owens: Paddle charges a flat 5% fee across all volume
“So we charge a flat five percent across everything.”
Christian Owens Jan 26, 2020 ▶ 2:33 1646 Why 900 SaaS CEO's Put $200m in ARR Through Him Every Year
Jun 27, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Owens: ProfitWell Retain charges a 4% to 6% take rate
“It's roughly between four and six percent. Like it's still tiered right now.”
Christian Owens Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 56:13 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Owens: Paddle at least doubled revenue from 2020 to 2021
“It was really high. Like it was because it was a sort of a little bit of a COVID aberration. Because we were, we saw like the tailwinds of all of that. We at least doubled the business like kind of over that kind of period of time.”
Christian Owens Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 42:33 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Owens scaled a previous software company to $3M-$5M ARR before Paddle
“So sort of pre paddle, I built a software company. And I really ran headfirst into the problem that we try and solve, scaled it to three to five million in ARR sort of, and ran into this problem where we were, we had a few 100,000 kind of people using these pr…”
Christian Owens Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 6:48 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Owens: Paddle raised an initial £150k seed round from one angel
“So like actually raising capital was the first thing that we did as a business. Like can I, and it kind of comes back to kind of Patrick's point earlier, and it wasn't the initial round of money round of kind of funding, which was just a seed round from like o…”
Christian Owens Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 37:59 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022
Assertion Supported
Owens: I hit my first $1M in revenue at age 15
“I was probably 15 ish, 15, 16.”
Christian Owens Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 9:27 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Owens says Paddle's founding equity split was roughly 70/30 or 75/25
“I think I don't even remember what the initial kind of equity split was. It was sort of like two thirds, one third or three quarters, one quarter or something like that.”
Christian Owens Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 14:11 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Owens invested roughly $100,000 of initial capital to launch Paddle
“It was probably because it was like in little chunks. As we kind of like built this stuff, it was probably call it a hundred K sort of to begin with.”
Christian Owens Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 13:54 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
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