Jonathan Fishbeck

Founder & CEO, EstateSpace · 3 appearances on the record.

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Jonathan Fishbeck is the founder and CEO of EstateSpace, a software platform established in 2017 to manage physical assets, property operations, and vendors. Before transitioning to SaaS, he spent nearly two decades operating and founding design-build and construction management companies catering to luxury estates.

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EstateSpace secured $1M in SBA COVID relief despite mass layoffs
“COVID, it gave us almost a million dollars in free money, so We had a lot of people pre-COVID. We let them all go, but the way that they looked, the SBA looked at that was that, okay, they counted us for the 2018, 2019 time when we had a lot of employees, so w…”
Jonathan Fishbeck Oct 30, 2022 ▶ 11:29 How we bootstrapped to $1m in ARR using services, now high multiple SaaS
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Jonathan Fishback predicts EstateSpace will reach $2M SaaS ARR in 2023
“We'll be about two million dollars in ARR by the end of next year, and it'll all be SAS.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Dec 28, 2022 ▶ 6:17 He closed $3.2m at $17m valuation with $20k in MRR last week for Estate Planning Tool
Opinion
Fishback rejected a $20M acquisition offer, believing EstateSpace is worth more
“I see this company being much more valuable than twenty million dollars, and I was not in a position.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Dec 28, 2022 ▶ 10:18 He closed $3.2m at $17m valuation with $20k in MRR last week for Estate Planning Tool
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EstateSpace converted $4.3M in family debt into 8.5% equity tax-free
“We converted 4.3 million dollars of debt into eight and a half percent equity. Because Ron is my father and I'm his son the IRS saw that this could have just been simply a contribution.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Oct 30, 2022 ▶ 9:32 How we bootstrapped to $1m in ARR using services, now high multiple SaaS
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Fishback: Family offices are expanding into lifestyle fulfillment services
“In the last 10 years, family offices specifically have started getting into the fulfillment of the lifestyle of the individual that they're serving, whether it's a single or multifamily.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Dec 28, 2022 ▶ 2:39 He closed $3.2m at $17m valuation with $20k in MRR last week for Estate Planning Tool
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Fischbeck: EstateSpace projects $5M to $6M in profits in 2025
“Our burn rate, it's gonna be close to about four million dollars, and we're gonna see somewhere around five to six million dollars in, in performance and profits in twenty-twenty-five”
Jonathan Fishbeck Oct 30, 2022 ▶ 12:00 How we bootstrapped to $1m in ARR using services, now high multiple SaaS
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Fischbeck: EstateSpace Will Reach $1M ARR in 12 Months
“I don't know where we'll be in the next 12 months, but I do know that we'll hit a million in ARR.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Oct 30, 2022 ▶ 15:07 How we bootstrapped to $1m in ARR using services, now high multiple SaaS
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Fischbeck: EstateSpace Aims for 50,000 Members and $27M in 3 Years
“So we hit, you know, 45, 50,000 members over the course of the next three years, which is our goal. You know, we're a twenty seven million dollar company, and we're SaaS, so we're killing it.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Oct 30, 2022 ▶ 15:33 How we bootstrapped to $1m in ARR using services, now high multiple SaaS
Disclosure
EstateSpace ruled out a Series A due to the exhaustion of fundraising
“So there's no, I've taken that off the table given how exhausting it was to raise some of the money just internally right now. So so no plan, no plans of like a formal series A at this point.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Aug 6, 2021 ▶ 13:40 EstateSpace Grows 200% to $2.2m ARR Bootstrapped Helping You Track Your Physical Assets
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EstateSpace onboarded 65 family offices within five months of commercial launch
“Right now we've got about 65 family offices on the platform in the last, when we launched what was it? April 30th of this year.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Dec 28, 2022 ▶ 3:25 He closed $3.2m at $17m valuation with $20k in MRR last week for Estate Planning Tool
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Only 5% of EstateSpace's $2.2M 2021 revenue came from SaaS
“Yeah, it was like no, not zero percent, but maybe five percent of that revenue was SAS revenue.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Dec 28, 2022 ▶ 4:38 He closed $3.2m at $17m valuation with $20k in MRR last week for Estate Planning Tool
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EstateSpace crossed $250,000 in ARR within five months of launching
“So we're probably, we just crossed 250,000 and recurring revenue. In ARR in the past five months since we launched.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Dec 28, 2022 ▶ 5:13 He closed $3.2m at $17m valuation with $20k in MRR last week for Estate Planning Tool
Disclosure
EstateSpace is currently raising a $3.25M funding round
“So I'm, we're raising around 3.25 million.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Dec 28, 2022 ▶ 6:13 He closed $3.2m at $17m valuation with $20k in MRR last week for Estate Planning Tool
Disclosure
EstateSpace is raising an equity round at a $17M pre-money valuation
“So we did we're just, we're doing pure equity sell common stocks and we set a seventeen million dollar free money.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Dec 28, 2022 ▶ 7:21 He closed $3.2m at $17m valuation with $20k in MRR last week for Estate Planning Tool
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EstateSpace maintains over a 90% retention rate for paying clients
“We have over a 90% retention rate for paying clients.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Dec 28, 2022 ▶ 9:18 He closed $3.2m at $17m valuation with $20k in MRR last week for Estate Planning Tool
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EstateSpace's largest single client pays approximately $7,000 per month
“Our largest client is about 7000 of that a month.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Dec 28, 2022 ▶ 11:03 He closed $3.2m at $17m valuation with $20k in MRR last week for Estate Planning Tool
Disclosure
EstateSpace had zero SaaS customers and no revenue on June 4, 2019
“June of 2019, June fourth, I know the day I'm broke. We have, you know, zero real SaaS customers. We're beta-less at the time, so I didn't even have a product that somebody could use. And we had no revenue, right? We're bleeding and we're bootstrapped.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Oct 30, 2022 ▶ 6:07 How we bootstrapped to $1m in ARR using services, now high multiple SaaS
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Fischbeck: EstateSpace Cut Team From 29 to Six People
“I had 29 people. I had to fire everyone down to six, two of them in the back of the room with us still right now to this day.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Oct 30, 2022 ▶ 8:46 How we bootstrapped to $1m in ARR using services, now high multiple SaaS
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Fischbeck: EstateSpace converted $4.23M in contracts to equity at $17M valuation
“We converted 4.23 million dollars of service contracts into equity. We increased evaluation to 17 pre-money when we did that, so I've still been able to hold on to about 55% of the company to this point.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Oct 30, 2022 ▶ 11:12 How we bootstrapped to $1m in ARR using services, now high multiple SaaS
Disclosure
Fischbeck: EstateSpace faces $880K 12-month shortfall after $775K insider capital injection
“I put in another 500, our shareholders put in another two 75, and now we're to the point where we've got about an 880 K shortfall between now and the next 12 months, and we're gonna bridge that through shareholder milestones.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Oct 30, 2022 ▶ 11:48 How we bootstrapped to $1m in ARR using services, now high multiple SaaS
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Fischbeck: EstateSpace Needs 4,500 Members to Reach Cash Flow Positive
“We only need to get to 4500 members, and we're cash flow positive, right?”
Jonathan Fishbeck Oct 30, 2022 ▶ 15:27 How we bootstrapped to $1m in ARR using services, now high multiple SaaS
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EstateSpace serves over 50 families, including multiple billionaires
“So we have over 50 families. We have multiple billionaires on the platform.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Aug 6, 2021 ▶ 5:33 EstateSpace Grows 200% to $2.2m ARR Bootstrapped Helping You Track Your Physical Assets
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EstateSpace booked $1.4M in Jan 2021, exceeding 2020's total revenue
“So we did a million in 2020, and we did 1.4 in January of this year, and continue to scale that number up this year.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Aug 6, 2021 ▶ 7:28 EstateSpace Grows 200% to $2.2m ARR Bootstrapped Helping You Track Your Physical Assets
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Fishbeck: EstateSpace reached about $175,000 in monthly recurring revenue
“About a 175,000.”
Jonathan Fishbeck Aug 6, 2021 ▶ 7:51 EstateSpace Grows 200% to $2.2m ARR Bootstrapped Helping You Track Your Physical Assets

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Appearances (3)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
He closed $3.2m at $17m valuation with $20k in MRR last week for Estate Planning Tool Dec 28, 2022 8m
How we bootstrapped to $1m in ARR using services, now high multiple SaaS Oct 30, 2022 14m
EstateSpace Grows 200% to $2.2m ARR Bootstrapped Helping You Track Your Physical Assets Aug 6, 2021 13m
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