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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

So our first, you know, up through 2015, our first four or five, six months of revenue was was low.

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

Uh, well, it wasn't, it wasn't so low, you know, it was, it was still, it was over a million for our first four, four months.

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

But, you know, I would say our, it was lower than even what our monthly revenue is now.

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

Correct.

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

So what we do on the tech side, or at least on the data side, is we have essentially an algorithm and that's how we're customizing the bed.

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

So we're taking all the information that you put into our system based on the questions that we ask you and translating those answers into optimized product constructions, essentially.

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

Yeah, absolutely.

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

So we are not a super tech-heavy team, actually.

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

We have used TopTel, which is sort of an agency that helps you find outsourced developers who are super talented.

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

We've worked with someone through that service since we've launched, and he actually built a lot of our code base.

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

Before we launched, we had

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

someone who was friendly to the company, build a lot of the backbone.

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

We've been working with that TopTel developer and we're in the process of building out a smaller tech team in-house.

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

I think what's important from our perspective is you really can get a long way and build a lot of the tools that you need without massive tech

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

you know, infrastructure.

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

I would consider ourselves, which is a brand or, you know, we, we,

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

Correct.

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

So what you do is they actually have a very interesting process where you can source developers.

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

You sort of tell them this is what we need.

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

You can source developers on a full-time, part-time, or hourly basis, and they will go out, find developers internationally who have great skill sets in whatever language you're using or whatever framework you're using.