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Alex Suma

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
214 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

So it's a big operation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

And obviously, our team is mostly sales and marketing kind of focused, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

We've got two ops people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

How many folks are full-time today at SaaS.stock?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

22 today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

Last year, by the time of the event, I think we were like 17 or 18.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

So like at the beginning of 2022, we were nine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

We were nine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

Yeah, we were about nine because like post pre-COVID, we were 24.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

When we scaled down to nine during COVID to kind of keep it lean, you know, our costs went down.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

I had to go down.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

So our revenue went down by two thirds.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

And then we started to hire slowly and build back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

So it was about 17 by the time of doubling last year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

Yeah, I really like... Jonathan's on the scale stage.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

Is that your biggest?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

It's the biggest stage, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

And really, that's for the companies like Aircall.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

Obviously, Aircall is, I think, classified as a centaur, a company that's doing $100 million in revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage

I think you said now it's like $130 million.