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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

If you're a carrier, there's the list.

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

So they were paying us for essentially robocall blocking and privacy protection, as well as second phone lines that were robocall free and had a number of business phone features.

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

That was the consumer model.

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

Yeah, that's spot on.

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

Pretty close.

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

That's right.

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

Well, we realized that the carriers and the enterprises needed help.

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

They're willing to pay up for that help.

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

If you're an enterprise and someone's using your name in making tons of imposter phone calls to rip people off, that not only gives you customer support costs, but it causes brand damage.

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

And you may even have to reimburse those people as a form of goodwill.

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

So there's tremendous damage there that they're willing to pay a portion of to stop the problem.

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

And enterprises are not $12.

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

They're not $120 a month.

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

They're substantially larger when you can find and get these contracts successfully.

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

Carriers are the same way.

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

That was a while ago.

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

That was probably 2009, actually.

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

Yep, that's correct.

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

In fact, we did it in about 11 months because we were completely free service.

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

We're running out of money.