Skatell: Turning internal media tools into a SaaS platform is difficult
Alex Skatell · The Art of Getting 25,000,000 Unique Website Views Monthly, EP 301: Alex Skatell · Jun 19, 2016 · at 14:02
Alex Skatell, founder of Media Group of America and Independent Journal Review, discusses why MGA maintains its proprietary technology in-house rather than spinning it out into a standalone SaaS product.
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“I think it's focus is really hard in a startup. And I think right now scaling those products that we use into a SaaS platform would be tough unless it was part of a strategy that Included you know, part of a strategy that included a model that, that scales well that's outside of just the revenue from the SAS.”
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