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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

You don't need to have an employee sitting in California.

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

They can be

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

somebody at home in Jamaica and be just as good at doing that customer support.

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

Well, so the really key thing for us is that we have a core development team.

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

We aren't outsourcing it 100%.

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

What we wanted to do was find support for tasks like maintenance or relatively simple tasks that don't require a really complicated skill set.

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

If you're fixing iPhone bugs, that's completely different than if you're building an iPhone UI from scratch.

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

You're building complicated data manipulations.

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

That's a different group.

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

So we contract out a lot of what I would say is the easier stuff.

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

And it was through our network.

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

We found someone who basically built a contracting firm in Asia who knows how to pull people together with the skills we want and has been able to staff up and down as we need.

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

It's amazing.

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

It's actually a person.

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

It's an individual who's one of our friends, one of our contacts.

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

No, it's we got lucky that we were looking for someone.

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

We found this guy to help us, to develop for us.

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

And he said, I have a whole network of people I can bring in.

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

And we just went from there.

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

What's that?