Clint Tasset

Founder & Board Member, Adswerve · 1 appearance on the record.

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Clint Tasset founded Adswerve in 2009 after working at DoubleClick, bootstrapping the business into a Google Marketing Platform and Cloud consultancy. Under his tenure as CEO, the firm exceeded $100 million in revenue and completed major acquisitions including Analytics Pros.

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AdSwerve surpassed $100 million in annual revenue in 2018

“No, we did that. We did it last year.”

Clint Tasset Sep 7, 2019 ▶ 15:47 1505 Rare 30% EBITDA, $100m ARR Company Bootstrapped Helping Enterprise Clients Onboard to Google Ad Tools

Disclosure

AdSwerve's revenue model ranges from a 50/50 service split to 90% SaaS

“Some of our product models are very 50 50 because they're very service driven. And then other products are going to be more just SaaS based model where they're almost I'd say 80 to 90% where we're just kind of helping with the platforms like licensing and dist…”

Clint Tasset Sep 7, 2019 ▶ 1:17 1505 Rare 30% EBITDA, $100m ARR Company Bootstrapped Helping Enterprise Clients Onboard to Google Ad Tools

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AdSwerve's average customer contract exceeds six figures excluding media spend

“So if we were to extract media out of it, I would say in excess of six figures.”

Clint Tasset Sep 7, 2019 ▶ 4:15 1505 Rare 30% EBITDA, $100m ARR Company Bootstrapped Helping Enterprise Clients Onboard to Google Ad Tools

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AdSwerve manages 800 direct relationships across up to 6,000 advertisers

“So right now I think we're effectively operating about 800 unique relationships and five to 6000 different advertisers.”

Clint Tasset Sep 7, 2019 ▶ 5:11 1505 Rare 30% EBITDA, $100m ARR Company Bootstrapped Helping Enterprise Clients Onboard to Google Ad Tools

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Agencies make up about 60% of AdSwerve's paid client base

“Those are all paid clients within that though. There's about 60% of those would be agencies and those agencies we're supporting might have multiple clients inside of those.”

Clint Tasset Sep 7, 2019 ▶ 6:51 1505 Rare 30% EBITDA, $100m ARR Company Bootstrapped Helping Enterprise Clients Onboard to Google Ad Tools

Disclosure

AdSwerve acquired Analytics Pros for $24M using debt and PE backing

“That was a twenty four million dollar acquisition that we did. And that was more on a traditional debt perspective. I have also been able to engage with a private equity, Avery Group, and they've been able to come aboard with us in a minority deal structure, a…”

Clint Tasset Sep 7, 2019 ▶ 8:05 1505 Rare 30% EBITDA, $100m ARR Company Bootstrapped Helping Enterprise Clients Onboard to Google Ad Tools

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AdSwerve is growing its revenue at 33% to 36% year-over-year

“We're typically running about a 33% year-over-year growth right now. 33, 36.”

Clint Tasset Sep 7, 2019 ▶ 11:52 1505 Rare 30% EBITDA, $100m ARR Company Bootstrapped Helping Enterprise Clients Onboard to Google Ad Tools

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AdSwerve is operating at roughly 30% EBITDA margins

“We're probably sitting somewhere in the 30% range right now, and it's kind of just ticking down, but ultimately it's not because sitting Because of loss.”

Clint Tasset Sep 7, 2019 ▶ 14:30 1505 Rare 30% EBITDA, $100m ARR Company Bootstrapped Helping Enterprise Clients Onboard to Google Ad Tools

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AdSwerve has 160 employees and adds five to ten every month

“So right now we're about 160 and growing typically about five to 10 headcount every, every month, I think.”

Clint Tasset Sep 7, 2019 ▶ 7:06 1505 Rare 30% EBITDA, $100m ARR Company Bootstrapped Helping Enterprise Clients Onboard to Google Ad Tools

Disclosure

Clint Tasset bootstrapped AdSwerve in 2009 with a $5,000 parental loan

“I started the company back in 2009 very bootstrapped. I literally got 5000 bucks from my parents as kind of what we put in the bank account to kick this thing off. And that was the only funding that we took at the Time.”

Clint Tasset Sep 7, 2019 ▶ 7:29 1505 Rare 30% EBITDA, $100m ARR Company Bootstrapped Helping Enterprise Clients Onboard to Google Ad Tools

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