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Aaron Ross

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
270 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

Well, shut down prior business, took some time off, and then I knew I wanted to learn sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

The only sales job I had

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

at Salesforce, because we're better to learn sales, was answering the 800 line because that was all they had for sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

It went from being CEO of an internet company to the most junior spot at a new company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

But the first day was exciting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

The first week or two weeks or three weeks or a month was exciting because it's all new, new people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

After about five, six weeks or two months, it started to drag because I was answering the 100 line, responding to inbound leads,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

It didn't take me very long to figure it out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

You know, it's probably, my total compensation was, I think, around $45,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

So Sally would have been maybe $35,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

No equity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

It was tiny.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

It was very little.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

So...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

Actually, the point you said about people sort of sticking out through tough situations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 118: 12 Kids, Took Salesforce to $100m ARR, 50,000 Books Sold

I mean, I do feel like a lot of people end up as whiners when they don't get what they want when they want it.