Ryan Buckley
- CEO at Mightysignal
GetLatka interview
How MightySignal Sold for $4.5M to AirNow After Running $1M ARR with Zero Team (Interview with CEO Ryan Buckley)
Ryan Buckley (CEO of Mightysignal) spoke to Nathan Latka on July 6, 2022.
Mightysignal figures from the interview
- ARR at Acquisition (2019)
- $1M
- Exit Price (2021)
- $4.5M
- Team Size Inherited (2019)
- 0
“He handed me a business that was doing a million ARR with no team. And the first thing I had to do, of course, was hire an engineer.”
“I just kinda thought of it like going back to school. I respected Jonathan, during the scripted acquisition process, was just really impressed by what what he built and the companies that he was able to acquire.”
“Within eighteen months, like, this stock needs to be liquid. Either you you IPO, like, you you provide some secondary capital that's gonna come in and and buy our stock away from us, or you're forced to buy it yourself.”
Bio
Ryan is CEO of MightySignal, which he sold to Airnow in 2021. Ryan was co-founder and CEO of Scripted, a marketplace for content marketers. He is the author of The Parallel Entrepreneur and an associate professor at Diablo Valley College where he teaches business and marketing.