Welcome back to season two of The Raise ⏩️
This week, I spoked with Luke Campbell, co-founder of SaaS startup, VXT.
Honestly, going into this interview I thought we would get more into the tactics and technicalities of running a SaaS company. Instead, the story that unfolded during my conversation is so much more than an archetypal founder story. What I discovered about Luke is that he’s someone who puts fun at the heart of everything, isn’t ashamed of his ambition to one day make it into space, and has a deep desire to learn and grow as a leader and entrepreneur. He has a huge respect for the people who’ve helped him create VXT, emanating the entrepreneurs who inspired him as a teenager. Taking a leaf out of Ben Horowitz’s book, he once made the bold move of driving five hours without an appointment to get a meeting with the CEO of Two Degrees Mobile in the early days of building VXT.
Don’t let the fact that Luke almost flunked university make you think he hasn’t worked hard either. Like many entrepreneurs, the traditional path was never going to be for him. Fast forward to now, and in the 12-months, with co-founder Lucy Turner, VXT has tripled its ARR to almost $3m, servicing customers in the UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, and Canada. They happily call New Zealand their smallest market. Their team of 17 “really, really like working at VXT and people who don't work at VXT, when they find out about what it's like to work at VXT, really, really want to come and work at VXT.”
