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Adam Sandman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
453 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Hits $13m Revenue with No VC Raised selling SaaS to Defense Firms

Yeah, sounds about right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Hits $13m Revenue with No VC Raised selling SaaS to Defense Firms

And also, is it a government enterprise or is it a private, small...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Hits $13m Revenue with No VC Raised selling SaaS to Defense Firms

Like a lot of firms, there are Indian companies that have set up shop there or of other companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Hits $13m Revenue with No VC Raised selling SaaS to Defense Firms

Those private companies, easy to sell to 10,000, 15,000 government entity that's building out a large part of the infrastructure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Hits $13m Revenue with No VC Raised selling SaaS to Defense Firms

That's a whole different beast.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Hits $13m Revenue with No VC Raised selling SaaS to Defense Firms

But we love them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Hits $13m Revenue with No VC Raised selling SaaS to Defense Firms

Don't worry about what other people think of you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Hits $13m Revenue with No VC Raised selling SaaS to Defense Firms

Do what you enjoy, do what you love, and don't let people tell you you can't do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Hits $13m Revenue with No VC Raised selling SaaS to Defense Firms

Thanks so much, Nathan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Founder Hits $13m Revenue with No VC Raised selling SaaS to Defense Firms

Have a good one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

No, I would say it's not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

Because again, the average is not weighted.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

So our revenue right now is just under $10 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

Sure, absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

So Inflectra was founded really in 2006 to help companies of all sizes improve their quality of their software development, software testing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

At that time in the market, there weren't many products focused on the smaller and medium-sized businesses, a lot of tools for large companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

Not a lot for the midsize and, again, startup companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

So I started the company in 2006 to provide that missing solution in the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

And as the market evolved, basically, we've grown the company now to focus a lot more on more complex regulated industries and more complex business problems, providing quality, reliability, and compliance to customers in various different industries.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's the Real Unicorn: Bootstrapped to $10m, Owns 100%, Shares Profits with Team

The customers from large defense contractors, you probably don't know the names, large supply chain companies, banks, insurance companies, people like Cincinnati Insurance, people like Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, healthcare systems, hospitals, supply chain, food retailers, people who import bananas.