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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Bending Spoons just bought his company for $100,000,000+ with Issuu CEO Joe Hyrkin

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Joe launched Issuu back in 2006 to help magazines move digital. He grew to $50m in revenue and raised about $50m. In March 2024 he decided to exit in a nine figure deal. How'd the deal go down? Why did he go with Bending Spoons?

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0:13.5

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0:30.0

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0:38.5

I am very excited about this next guest because every time I have it on the podcast,

0:43.4

I cannot get, you guys know why I push, I just cannot get the data I wanted.

0:47.6

And then all of a sudden, I say, let me put you on stage at SaaS Open,

0:51.0

and he says, well, we actually just had a big transaction.

0:53.7

I'll come to SAS Open.

0:54.9

We'll talk about it.

0:55.8

That's all I'm going to say.

0:57.2

Please tell me, welcome to this stage.

0:58.7

Joe from Issue.

1:00.1

Joe, come on up.

1:04.7

I'm going to just see you, my friend.

1:06.1

Thank you for the water.

1:07.4

I'm going to keep chatting while I ask you questions, and I'm going to grab my coffee while you make yourself comfortable.

1:13.1

First of all, go ahead.

1:14.3

I should change the name of this conference to the resilience open, because all we're hearing about is like one experience of resilience after the next.

1:25.3

It's sort of the core of these businesses.

1:33.0

Anyway, I also want to tell you guys, and Joe, I hope you don't mind me doing this, but we'll get to this later because conference is not always just about business, but he actually

1:37.3

feels great. He just sounds terrible. We'll talk about that in a little bit. We'll let that be an

1:41.8

open loop. I have vocal cord. No, nervous. Joe, this is be an open loop. I have vocal cord. No. This is called an open loop and

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