Ray Hames

1 appearance on the record.

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Everything Ray Hames said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Hames: 50-50 equity splits cause confusion over who holds ultimate responsibility
“I was a fifty-fifty owner in Sandy, and sometimes that created confusion, honestly, about like, who's doing what, and who's the most vested, who has the most vested interest here, and I think that for me going into Teamera, I needed to know at the end of the d…”
Ray Hames Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 9:23 Deal! How She Spun SaaS out of $5.5m Agency
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Hames: Surviving ad agencies charge 50% markups; 3x margins are dead
“A healthy ad agency is running the three X markup, which like hardly anybody's getting away with these days. But any agency that's still in business is running at least a 50% markup on ours.”
Ray Hames Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 12:50 Deal! How She Spun SaaS out of $5.5m Agency
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Hames: WorkSandy generated $5 million in revenue last year
“We did five million last year in revenue.”
Ray Hames Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 5:56 Deal! How She Spun SaaS out of $5.5m Agency
Disclosure
Hames: WorkSandy received Tamara equity in exchange for IP spinout
“We made the decision that I was going to take the tech side and spin that out, and he the trade-off is that for the IP, Sandy and my co-founder have a little bit of equity on the cap table with Team Era. And, you know, and in exchange, I left the cap table of …”
Ray Hames Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 7:35 Deal! How She Spun SaaS out of $5.5m Agency
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Hames: WorkSandy Spent Just Shy of $1M Developing Tamara's Software
“I mean, like just shy of a million, just shy of a million.”
Ray Hames Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 10:24 Deal! How She Spun SaaS out of $5.5m Agency
Insight
Hames: Every Talent Marketplace Struggles with Keeping Profiles Active
“Obviously keeping those profiles active is something that every talent marketplace struggles with”
Ray Hames Aug 7, 2023 ▶ 4:11 Deal! How She Spun SaaS out of $5.5m Agency

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Deal! How She Spun SaaS out of $5.5m Agency Aug 7, 2023 9m
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