Baremetrics
👤 Josh Pigford (Serial SaaS maker. Built Baremetrics for his own products, ran it fully in public, exited for $4M, now builds Maybe.)🌐 sitejoshpigford.com𝕏LinkedIn
A subscription-analytics tool that showed its own MRR in public - so when Josh sold, due diligence was already done.
Will it work? · our read
Verified in public. A public dashboard turned due diligence into a formality and made a clean, all-cash exit possible - but the same slow, steady profile capped the price at a modest 2.65x.
01How the money moves
Founders connect Stripe to Baremetrics
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Pay monthly for MRR, churn & LTV dashboards
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Public, clean metrics enable $4M cash exit
02The numbers
$4MStatedAll-cash sale '20, 2.65x ARR
2020-11
the sentence on the page
Selling a $4M SaaS: Inside the Baremetrics Acquisition Product Metrics Track, analyze, improve - effortlessly. Segmentation Comparative custome
All-cash, no earnout - Josh guaranteed his own $3.7M take-home. acquisition post
Sold for $4M cash (2.65x, about $1.5M ARR) to Xenon Partners, Nov 2020.
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- The CENTS scorecard — where it's strong, where it's soft
- The founder's key move, and the counter-move
- How it could die — the evidence, and how sure we are
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Baremetrics - "Selling a $4M SaaS" (founder post: price, multiple, structure)They Got Acquired - Xenon Partners deal (customers, team)Startups For the Rest of Us Ep. 534 - the $4M exitjoshpigford.com - founder site
Sale price ($4M), 2.65x multiple, $3.7M take-home, the all-cash / no-earnout structure, the $300K team pool and the $800K VC (General Catalyst, Bessemer) write-off are all first-party - Josh Pigford published them himself. ARR (about $1.5M) is derived from price divided by 2.65x, not separately stated. Customer count (about 1,000) and the 10-person team are reported by They Got Acquired, not the founder. No drama invented: the "no earnout capped my price" framing is Josh's own. The commoditization death read is [our read]. We never score you.