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Adam Tishman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
205 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

That's what we did for, let's call it the first six to seven months while we were focusing on acquisition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

Recently, we've forayed pretty heavily into audio, seeing a lot of great results on the audio side, particularly in podcast, actually, as well as Sirius XM and terrestrial radio, which is sort of normal car radio.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

Those are our main acquisition points right now, though we do have plans to enter into different channels as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

Yeah, you know, it's a really great format for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

I think when you think about our category, it's a longer term, longer lead purchase.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

So people, you know, it's not an impulse driven purchase.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

And it's also something that you're not really buying unless you're in the market for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

And so we find audio to be a great mix of just having the scale for general brand awareness while also being impactful on a DR basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

It's close to there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

So, again, it depends.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

It's, you know, it's probably a number that I'm not willing to share the number directly, but it depends a lot on whether we are considering that sale a test sort of like in the test phase or in the sort of more mature acquisition phase.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

You know, the answer is yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

It's a number where we feel very comfortable that we can scale profitably or at least net margin profitable when we think about each acquisition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

Essentially, the way we look at it is you have your customer lifetime value and then your cost of acquisition, same way everyone looks at it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

Our business model...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

It's different in that, unlike more of a subscription-based model, we realize almost the entirety of the customer lifetime value immediately.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

And so, you know, we currently do not offer other products, although that's something that's interesting to us, but...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

What that means for us is the game is almost a little bit simpler, yet more complex in certain areas where we just have to make it work immediately.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

So we're willing to go higher than that.