Q started your SaaS company as an agency or professional services? Raise your hand. This is like by far the number one theme from successful SaaS founders is starting as an agency. You did that. Speak up, spend more time speaking about how much revenue the agency do. Are you still running it today? And how did you use the agency contracts to learn about the SaaS products you could build?
A Yeah, sure. So I mean, running an agency, I actually started an agency in South Africa, which is still going, now my brother runs it, and I got, have one in the USA as well. So combined, we were less than two million. We were probably about 1.5 million. Um, the agency in the USA, I just still manage about a handful of clients, and I sort of dog food our what converts product with them, and then South African agency is still running. They're about a team of, uh, 20. So, um, I think I covered everything. Anyway, so that's the reason we decided to bootstrap, because we're still getting some funding from the agency, and we could build it out at the same time. We, um, we also wanted the optionality. We didn't want investors getting involved and changing, you know, controlling how we develop things. So we just want to stay focused on sorting the problem we had. And then the other thing is we want to grow value before we got, ah, funding. So the reason for this is people say to you, do you want a tiny piece of a huge pie, or do you want the whole pie? Well, we're like, well, we want the whole pie, and when it comes to the stage, we want a huge piece of the huge pie. Yeah. Ok. So, when, when do you decide how you can skip funding? So bootstrap versus funding. And I put it into three distinct buckets. You got your problem, your product, and the promotion. So with the problem, when you c…
AI assessment note: “combined, we were less than two million. We were probably about 1.5 million.”