Patrick Campbell

17 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 8, 2018 by Patrick Campbell · said 15 times in 9 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Jun 8, 2018
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Campbell: I gained 100 pounds while building ProfitWell
“You know, I, I've gained a hundred pounds through this business so it's been one of those things, and I, like, it's not the business's fault. It's definitely my fault, but it's been one of those things where I think I definitely, like, sacrificed the body a li…”
Patrick Campbell Jun 8, 2018 ▶ 24:13 1049 We're Bootstrapped And Doubling Revenue YoY, Past $8m ARR
Jun 8, 2018 positive
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Campbell: ProfitWell has doubled or more than doubled revenue every year
“We have, Doubled or more than doubled every year.”
Patrick Campbell Jun 8, 2018 ▶ 13:49 1049 We're Bootstrapped And Doubling Revenue YoY, Past $8m ARR
Jun 8, 2018
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Campbell: ProfitWell scaled with zero paid acquisition before hiring marketing
“We don't spend, like, we literally just hired our first marketing person, like, a couple months ago. We had some outsourced spending, so if I had to actually quantify it was probably around 10 K a month, but that was for people. We were spending zero dollars o…”
Patrick Campbell Jun 8, 2018 ▶ 8:41 1049 We're Bootstrapped And Doubling Revenue YoY, Past $8m ARR
Jun 8, 2018 neutral
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Campbell: Price Intelligently represents roughly two-thirds of ProfitWell revenue
“The split, I'm trying to do the math in my head. It's probably about two thirds, one third.”
Patrick Campbell Jun 8, 2018 ▶ 18:52 1049 We're Bootstrapped And Doubling Revenue YoY, Past $8m ARR
Jun 27, 2022
Disclosure
Patrick Campbell discloses he has Asperger's
“I have Asperger's, so that's another thing I don't think I've ever told you, and I've been more open about that recently”
Patrick Campbell Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 16:45 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022
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Campbell: ProfitWell's early $50/month software made under $1K MRR
“Oh yeah. Like probably under a thousand dollars MRR. Right. Like cause we got it out there and then you have to understand like at that time there wasn't this like indie hacker community. There wasn't product hunt.”
Patrick Campbell Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 46:51 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022
Disclosure
Campbell: ProfitWell rejected potentially more lucrative buyout offers to protect team
“And we did get other offers. Those other offers, they were not as compelling from a team perspective. They might have been more lucrative depending on how you look at it, but it was one of those things where the core of us as well as like myself wanted to keep…”
Patrick Campbell Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 1:12:55 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022
Insight
Campbell: Quoting flat rates instead of percentages makes B2B sales significantly easier
“A percent cut feels punitive, but if I position it as a flat rate, that is essentially a percentage anyways, like that little mind trick, like makes the sales process so much easier.”
Patrick Campbell Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 57:17 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022 negative
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Campbell: Google gave me a $5K bonus before shelving my algorithm
“I made Google a ton of money, but the point I was trying to make was like, they gave me an award and like a 5000 dollar bonus. And they were like, yeah, we're going to shut this down.”
Patrick Campbell Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 19:00 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022 negative
What-if
Campbell: ProfitWell lost a year of growth by not raising a seed round
“We should have raised money right there, at least a small seed fund or seed round or something like that in order to like, you know, accelerate that probably by a year. Like we probably lost a year by not raising a small round for that.”
Patrick Campbell Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 50:03 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022
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Campbell: ProfitWell reached $200K in sales within nine months completely unfunded
“Within nine, nine months, like I had closed probably about a 200 grand in, in, in sales. And I wasn't paying, I wasn't making anything. I was like, we had no, that was the funding in the business.”
Patrick Campbell Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 25:09 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022 positive
Insight
Campbell: Paddle assumes full legal tax liability for its software customers
“Tax is completely taken care of. Like, not like, Hey, we show you how much tax it's like, no, no, no. It's completely taken care of. Like if your tax gets messed up, we go to jail. Like you don't go to jail. We go to jail because we're the ones that are actual…”
Patrick Campbell Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 8:16 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022
Disclosure
Campbell: ProfitWell exec delayed signing employment agreement for a year
“Like we did like FACU didn't sign his employment agreement for like a year because we were like worried that we were going to have to like take the source code.”
Patrick Campbell Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 30:05 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022
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Campbell: ProfitWell Retain recovered $22M per month in subscription MRR
“The ego number is like the amount of dollars that go through all retained forms. That's the number I know. That's twenty two million dollars a month.”
Patrick Campbell Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 58:46 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022
Insight
Campbell: Bootstrapped founders should always keep basic M&A decks and data rooms ready
“I think you should always be ready to like run a process. And that means like, even if you're bootstrapped, have a deck, have like an overview, like memo or a deck or whatever it is have like some of your financials or a data room. Like you don't have to have …”
Patrick Campbell Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 1:09:29 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022
Insight
Campbell: Track and nurture potential acquirers on a dedicated board deck slide
“This is another thing that you should do is you should always keep potential acquirers, I would say, warm. So for the past number of years, we had like a slide in our board deck of like, here are the potential acquirers. And then basically like, where is the s…”
Patrick Campbell Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 1:10:12 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
Jun 27, 2022
Insight
Campbell: Free software must outperform paid competitors to gain user adoption
“What a lot of people don't realize it has to be better than the paid competition. If it's worse than the paid competition, what ends up happening is people just, they don't use it, right? Because it's not worth it. Like their time, most of the time.”
Patrick Campbell Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 49:41 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
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