How a SaaS Founder Overcame a Goliath That Tried to Kill his Business, with Preston ‘PK’ Keller, Emergent3

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, like, 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, like, focus on the good things
right now. That book got me through the darkest times. We also, you
know, 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, it was like
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 like, hey, you can't control
this environment and things that happen to you, but you can control
how you react. And I focused on just, like, I just wanted to make
someone else smile that day. " 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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