Will He Go Public To Buy Up His Affiliates?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Serial entrepreneur who previously was a founder and CEO of two software companies Momentum Systems and Applied Development Corp who were in the fintech/internet communications and application development tool sectors. Subsequently CEO of one of Canada's largest Accelerators and CEO of Canada's largest funder of start-up companies and with a focus on those commercializing academic IP.

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0:00.0	Are you pre-revenue today?
0:01.5	We are.
0:02.3	Okay, got it.
0:02.9	So when you say 15 customers, these are not customers.
0:05.7	They're users.
0:07.0	These affiliates are standalone organization, typically reasonably focused.
0:11.2	Like I said, doing maybe half a million to 10 million a year.
0:14.0	But they're not saying you.
0:15.2	They're not customers.
0:18.1	You are listening to conversations with Nathan Latka.
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0:34.2	You'll get the full interviews.
0:36.2	Right now, you're only hearing partial interviews.
0:39.3	And you'll get interviews three weeks earlier from founders, thinkers, and people I find interesting.
0:46.3	Like Eric Wan, 18 months before he took Zoom public.
0:50.3	We got to grow faster.
0:52.3	Minimum is 100% over the past several years.
0:54.8	Or bootstrap founders like Vivek of QuestionPro.
0:58.0	When I start the company, it was not cool to raise.
1:00.2	Or Looker's CEO Frank Bean before Google acquired his company for $2.6 billion.
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