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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Russ Perry is the Founder and CEO of Design Pickle, the world’s most successful flat-rate creative service. Russ leads a global team as they rethink and deliver a remarkable new way to find the perfect creative.

Transcript

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We are bootstrapped, and then about two years ago, we did a debt lending and just

0:05.7

just borrowed some money, and that has been the best for us because we cash flow really well.

0:14.1

Our LTV is well over $4,000, and our our CAQ is anywhere from six to seven hundred for dollars so we can

0:23.2

return on a client in two to three months as long as we have the cash available you are listening

0:30.6

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We got to grow faster, minimum is 100% over the past several years.

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Or bootstrap founders like Vivek of Question Pro.

1:09.0

When I start the company, it was not cool to raise.

1:11.5

Or Looker's CEO Frank Bean before Google acquired his company for $2.6 billion.

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