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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

I guess at the end of last quarter, we were growing like 260%, right?

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

I mean, we went, it took us 18 months to go from basically 100K to a million a day or so.

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

So, you know, when I came in, we were about a hundred K of just what he'd cobbled together.

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

And, you know, we just crossed the million 18 months after I came on.

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

Yeah.

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

18 months.

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

I mean, it was late.

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

It was Q4, 2016 that I came in.

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

So yeah, just an 18 month window.

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

So it's been

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

We came in and I brought in the first day, I mean, and you know, lessons learned, right?

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

The very first day I brought in a director of sales, very first day I joined her and I sat down together and it was like,

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

Because, you know, that was a lesson I learned is investing in sales too late and things like that.

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 it was great.

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

I had a great partner in terms of, you know, being able to bring a new business, which, of course, you need when you have very few customers.

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

Yeah, yeah.

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

She's very bright.

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

So she asked all of those questions.

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

Luckily, we had the personal relationship because we'd worked together.