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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

No, it's a great point.

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

You're also finding really talented people who are cheaper than a lot of people you would find here in this country.

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

What do you pay?

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

Yeah, we do.

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

Well, we we don't really pay per hour now because we actually have someone on full time.

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

So it.

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

it's more just like a generalized salary, but the numbers that we're seeing when we were paying per hour, you know, we're anywhere from 25 to maybe even 40% cheaper than what you would get here for the quality that we feel like we're getting.

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

I mean, we have someone that were, you know, is, is on payroll for, for 40 hours a week.

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

Yeah, so we did look at Upwork, and we've done some smaller projects with developers through that system.

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

Topsel was, for us, the most user-friendly service for a group of founders that didn't have technical backgrounds.

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

So we found them to be...

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

They held our hands enough that we felt comfortable with the process.

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

We felt like the quality of the candidates was very high.

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

And they also give you an initial period in the beginning where they're sort of risk-free.

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

If you don't like the person you're working with over the first, I don't know what it is, 10 or 15 hours, you actually can get your money back.

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

I mean, it just sort of eliminated a lot of the risks we saw.

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

And then we were lucky and found someone that we liked working with.

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

No, so you're correct.

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

You know, something like churn is not something that we focus on as greatly as a lot of other e-commerce companies or a lot of e-commerce brands, for sure.

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

You know, I think our daily focus is on building the brand, finding scale in various acquisition channels as we launch new channels and really improving customer experience and product.