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Adam Schoenfeld

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
235 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

And as you know, you were in that space at a similar time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

And a lot of companies, that space got very crowded very quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

Yeah, SaaS model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

We work on annual subscriptions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

And we solve this sort of niche problem in B2B email marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

So if you send any volume of email to leads and customers, whether you're sending them webinar invites or following up on white papers, what happens after your email sends go out is you get a bunch of replies back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

You get out-of-office messages and notifications that somebody's changed jobs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

Those things just happen, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

And then you get people who actually want to talk to you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

And that's happening more and more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

So Siftrock is basically managing and mining all of those replies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

So we take the hand raisers, the real people that want to talk to you, we send them to the sales rep, we look at the out of office messages for signatures, we look at the left companies to clean your database.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

So this process that just works behind the scenes to basically help you automate and kind of improve your process after the send.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

I wish there was a juicy story about that shit hitting the fan, but I used the Jason Lemkin ex post facto CEO because I came in as co-founder, as CEO after the company had been founded.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

Which is what year?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

It's a really cool story, actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

The company was founded in December 2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1202 He Raised $20m+ in First Company, Now Bootstrapping in B2B Sales Tech Space, $1m in ARR

So he'd been running it for about two years.