Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 534 | A $4M Exit with Josh Pigford of Baremetrics

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In this episode, Rob talks with Josh Pigford in a first appearance since the sale of Baremetrics for $4m. They discuss his seven-year journey to build Baremetrics, the details of the sale, and Josh's post-sale, non-software aspirations.

The topics we cover
  • [02:42] Intros
  • [04:26] Avoiding capital gains via qualified small business stock.
  • [09:08] Josh's post-sale purchases and other dramatic life shifts
  • [13:46] Changes at Baremetrics after sale
  • [18:32] Weeks of cash to profitable in 8 months
  • [23:20] Breaking through plateaus and product vs marketing for growth out of plateaus
  • [30:13] What motivated Josh to start thinking about selling
  • [32:58] Launching a new feature called Intros in 2020
  • [39:11] Laser tweets and post-sale aspirations
    • Links from the show
    • Episode 244 | Competition, Transparency and Funding with Baremetrics Founder Josh Pigford
    • Baremetrics: Subscription Analytics & Insights for Stripe, Braintree, Recurly & more!
    • I sold Baremetrics - Baremetrics
    • Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) (mentioned at 04:26)
    • Four Percent Rule
    • How we went from weeks of cash left in the bank to profitable in 8 months (mentioned at 18:42)
    • Revenue Dashboard - Baremetrics Demo
    • I almost sold Baremetrics for $5m - Baremetrics
    • Laser Tweets: Wooden Laser Etched Tweets

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