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Alex Quilici

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
255 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

Why would I jump out now?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

And so it's a bit of a sunk cost fallacy people have, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

Because this is kind of the opposite, which is this isn't going anywhere.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

It's never going to go anywhere in the future.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

You can't make that conclusion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

You have to look at where it is now and say, what's going on?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

What's the evidence this is going to succeed or fail?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

Well, and the interesting thing is there's mostly crowdsourced individuals and individuals are patient, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

You know, if you put 50,000 in or 100,000 in, you're fine with taking your time to see that turn into something big.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

If it can turn into a million over seven, eight, ten years, you're happy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

We do have some institutions and they, of course, always look for ways to kind of get out or trade.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

But, you know, they know that this is growing now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

So some of them are sitting there going, OK, well, this isn't bad.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

We stuck around and didn't try to force something.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

So the one I love, I love debt.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

So we took some debt a couple of years ago in order to accelerate growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

We said, we're going to burn some money for a little bit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

We have a very specific plan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

We're going to build this B2B thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises

We took some debt.