It was a great time with SaaS founders at the annual SaaStock Austin conference. Savvy sessions, great connections, some fun and lots of BBQ.
13 founders from my Practical Founders CEO peer groups came to Austin to hang out with each other in person at the conference. We had a great time together.
The 30+ of us meet a couple of times every month on Zoom, but in-person time is important, too. We left our offices to learn some new ideas and find new tools.
We shared insights, BBQ at Terry Black’s, laughs, activities, more BBQ, and we caught up since the last time we were in person.
It was great to see so many practical founders this week! Thanks for making the trip to Austin, gang.
I also interviewed Practical Founder peer group member Josh Turley on the main stage about the amazing bootstrapped growth of his SaaS business, RTA: The Fleet Success Company.
He shared how he grew the business from $2M ARR in 2017 to $14M ARR this year. And how he just raised a major growth equity round to keep the growth going, get help, and derisk as the company grows.
I met dozens of people who listen to my Practical Founders podcast. I don’t hear why they like it unless I’m out in a crowd of founders.
Thanks to Alexander Theuma of SaaStock for hosting a great conference for SaaS founders. And to Nathan Latka for bring his tribe and his energy as a co-host at SaaStock.
Thanks to David Umpleby for organizing all of us speakers so well. And many thanks to Jessica Ramesh for helping to get so many of my founder friends to Austin this year.
See you at SaaStock Austin next year!
