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How SaaStock Brought 3,700 Attendees to Dublin in 2022 and Is Targeting 5,000 for 2023 (Interview with CEO Alex Theuma)

Alex Theuma (CEO of SaaStock) spoke to Nathan Latka on September 1, 2023.

SaaStock figures from the interview

2022 Event Attendees
3,700
Founders at 2022 Event
1,500
Team Size (2023)
22
Year Founded
2016
“2016. Almost there. Yeah. Yeah. It's been a while.”
“Live last year was it was around, I wanna say, like, 3,700, something like that.”
“Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. So what did we spend all in? I mean, overall, I would say it was probably about 2,000,000, something like that. What's the most expensive thing? The most expensive thing, I mean, obviously, apart from our own overheads from the team, I think you just over, like, production. Right? So we're we're we're spending between, you know, 500 k to, you know, 1,000,000 on on on production.”

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How SaaStock Grew from €350K to £2.9M Revenue and 3,000 Attendees Before COVID (Interview with CEO Alex Theuma)

Alex Theuma (CEO of SaaStock) spoke to Nathan Latka on August 18, 2022.

SaaStock figures from the interview

Revenue (2016)
€350,000
Revenue (2019)
£2,900,000
Attendees (2019)
3,000
“It was 2016. September 2016 was the first SaaStock. We pretty much worked on it for a for a whole year, twelve months of period. I had no prior conference experience, but having set up a a SaaS blog and podcast, SaaS Revolution Show, then done some local SaaS meetups and looking for that entrepreneurial thing to do.”
“given twelve months to work on a single event, you know, I spent a lot of time, you know, doing their like grafting to get 700 founders from, think, like 34 countries to the first conference.”
“I got a quote of €10,000 and I only had to put 1,000 down. Right. And I was like, I can do that. And then, you know, with the rest of it, you obviously, I'll just, you know, sell tickets and I'll sell sponsorship and it'll cover my costs.”

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Bio

Alex Theuma, Founder & CEO of SaaStock a conference to help SaaS companies get traction, grow and scale, launched the conference in 2016, building on the popularity of his blog and podcast for SaaS founders and initial SaaS meetups in Dublin, London, and Berlin.

Company

SaaStock

London, United Kingdom · Founded 2016

Revenue
$4M
Team size
38

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