14 Minutes of SaaS - founder stories on business, tech and life

14 Minutes of SaaS - founder stories on business, tech and life


E77 – Sean Percival, CMO at Whereby, Ex 500 Startups. 2 of 5. Small & VC Free is Beautiful.

December 06, 2019

Episode 77 of 14 Minutes of SaaS is the second instalment of a 5-part mini-series. Stephen Cummins chats with Sean Percival, CMO at Whereby, formerly of 500 Startups and Myspace. "That Wittlebee was a great business ... a year into it, we were making almost 3M dollars in annual revenue. Recurring revenue. And so it was going good, but the VCs were just like ‘Go! Go! Go!’ And I'm like, ‘Wait a minute. My inventory is breaking. My supply chain is not like ironed out. Like we're growing too fast.’ And they're like ‘Perfect. Keep doing that! And here's a little bit more money!’"