Theuma: SaaStock Revenue Dropped Two-Thirds During COVID
Alex Theuma · SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage · Oct 2, 2023 · at 9:10
Alex Theuma describes how the pandemic disrupted SaaStock's business model and necessitated team cuts.
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“Pre-COVID we were 24. When we scaled down to nine during COVID to kind of keep it lean, you know, our costs and went down or had to go down. So our revenue went down by two thirds.”
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