In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Preston “PK” Keller, Founder at Emergent3, who shares how he overcame an industry Goliath trying to kill his SaaS business.

“When you’ve hit rock bottom and you’re going through hell, you cannot control all the environmental factors around you but you can control how you react to it. And I read this book, The Gap in the Game, and it basically says focus on the good things right now. That book got me through the darkest times. My wife was also pregnant with our third child and that third child had some serious health defects. She spent months in the NICU and this was during the lawsuit, during the rewrite, there was so much going on in my life and I was like, I’m still so lucky. It forced you to just focus on hey, you can’t control this environment and things that happen to you, but you can control how you react.”

PK shares:

  • Overworked and under-appreciated: the decision PK took that started it all..
  • The first six months of E3: incredible sales, disbelief in the success they were experiencing, and then..
  • The moment the sheriff knocked on his door serving him a summons – his previous employer, the ‘Big Bad Wolf’, was suing PK personally and his new company, E3, all for starting a business that was competing in the same market
  • Hitting a grand slam: The moment the judge called an instant ruling in their patent infringement case
  • Reflecting on the toll it took when he got to the point where everything he had, he could’ve lost in an instant
  • How this situation taught him that the relationships in his life are the most important thing

and more.

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