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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Co-Founder & CEO Events.com, Co-Founder: Active.com, Former Chairman & Owner: Triathlete Magazine, TEDx Producer, Chairman: La Jolla Foundation. Co-Founder of active.com (The Active Network). Co-Founder, CEO, ActiveEurope.com (Active Europe Network) Active went public before selling: Vista (1.05 billion), subsequently sold several divisions: Global Payments (1.2 billion) 22X Ironman triathlete.

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0:00.0

So combined entities were for 19, about 16.8.

0:04.4

Okay.

0:05.2

And we were- One-six, right?

0:07.4

One-six?

0:08.4

Yeah, 16.

0:09.4

16.8 million.

0:10.6

And then if you look at 2020, pre-COVID, you know, both contracted and otherwise referring

0:16.0

revenues should have been in the 25 million range.

0:20.0

But obviously, COVID was just a crushing blow to the

0:22.1

event industry. You know, there's $3 billion drop out of the event management software business.

0:28.4

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0:53.8

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0:56.4

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1:00.7

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

1:04.9

Or bootstrap founders like Vivek of QuestionPro.

1:08.4

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

1:10.7

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1:16.4

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1:21.5

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