Ryan O'Donnell

Co-founder & CEO, Replyify · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ryan O'Donnell is the co-founder of B2B sales enablement platforms SellHack and Replyify. Prior to founding these companies, he worked on Wall Street and at ad tech startup Right Media, joining Yahoo after its acquisition.

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O'Donnell avoids raising venture capital to prioritize his family lifestyle

“And I think that that scale and us not wanting, you know, specifically, we don't want to raise money at this point. I don't want to raise And go out and have to be responsible for, you know, hiring a team and growing the business out and getting an office and …”

Ryan O'Donnell Jul 13, 2019 ▶ 11:50 1449 How Dad of 3 Manages Life and $600K ARR Business

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Replyify will only hire more staff when internal automation breaks down

“I think if we got to the point that the scale comes when The processes and the automation that we've built for running certain components of our business, sales, marketing, you know, support development, when that starts to break down and we have clients who a…”

Ryan O'Donnell Jul 13, 2019 ▶ 12:43 1449 How Dad of 3 Manages Life and $600K ARR Business

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Replyify has 10,000 total users and 2,000 paying customers

“Users over 10,000, customers around 2000.”

Ryan O'Donnell Jul 13, 2019 ▶ 4:32 1449 How Dad of 3 Manages Life and $600K ARR Business

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Replyify's cohort revenue expansion exceeds 10%, outpacing churn

“So the expansion then is, is over 10. So we're netting out better than our churn on the expansion.”

Ryan O'Donnell Jul 13, 2019 ▶ 7:15 1449 How Dad of 3 Manages Life and $600K ARR Business

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Replyify is entirely bootstrapped and has raised no outside capital

“A hundred percent bootstrap.”

Ryan O'Donnell Jul 13, 2019 ▶ 11:14 1449 How Dad of 3 Manages Life and $600K ARR Business

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Bootstrapped startup Replyify generates $50,000 in MRR with just two people

“You got two dudes, you know, that are, you know, growing, supporting a growing business doing around 50 K a month.”

Ryan O'Donnell Jul 13, 2019 ▶ 17:31 1449 How Dad of 3 Manages Life and $600K ARR Business

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Replyify customers pay an average of $99 per month

“Around 99 bucks a month.”

Ryan O'Donnell Jul 13, 2019 ▶ 4:04 1449 How Dad of 3 Manages Life and $600K ARR Business

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Latka predicts this episode will out-download Atlassian's president

“You know that this will get more downloads though than Jay from Atlassian because people, because they watched Jay from Atlassian, you know, he just came on president there. That's aspirational, but it's not actionable.”

Nathan Latka Jul 13, 2019 ▶ 9:21 1449 How Dad of 3 Manages Life and $600K ARR Business

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
1449 How Dad of 3 Manages Life and $600K ARR Business	Jul 13, 2019	11m

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