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Alex Schutman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
230 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

So it was an analytical tool coming out of that exercise that said, boy, here's the attributes that make a lot of sense for you all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

And then the other thing that we did is in terms of how we approach the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

is we went into our customer base.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

We have 2,844 customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

Paying customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

We said, forget what we think we built or sold.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

What did they actually do with our software?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

And so coming from that, we got to a really good understanding of the five main reasons why people buy our software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

So our go-to-market from a target perspective is,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

Who has scored well in the past and then who has those attributes?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

And then who has one of these one or more of these five problems that, you know, after 3000 times, we know we solve really well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

Well, it really wasn't me making it smooth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

You know, Scott and the board are phenomenal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

And Scott's a good friend of mine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

And the great thing about Scott, you know, the thing that you learn about founder-run company, founder-built companies is the core of the company, the company's DNA never goes far from the founder.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

You know, and so Scott's a guy with super high integrity, family values, customer focus, technology focus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

And, and those things are still true about the company today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

And so I think when you look at Scott and I, part of it was that we get along really well.