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Aaron Lee

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
229 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

So if you go to any of the Home Depot stores today, you will see my work there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

I think they rebranded as Pro Referral.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

I think like when we accepted the offer, like we were looking at how do we expand it to even faster to even like adoption, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

We could raise money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

But on the other hand, when we raise the money, we only got the money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

We don't get the network effect.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

We don't get the distribution channels.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

Home Depot actually provide all of the above.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

And we got like very significant support from the then CEO of Frank Blake.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

And he was our biggest sponsor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

He saw the opportunity to expand from like products, which is like selling the stuff on the shelf to services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

Way more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

The investors are very happy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

All the employees are very happy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

Just raise one round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

Yeah, that was it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Smith AI Breaks $22m ARR Helping Companies Manage Voice, Chat Support, $100m Cap, Burning $300k per Month

Yeah, I think we definitely got the heavy size on the cash side.