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Amit Shanbhag

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
228 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

It's funny you mentioned.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

So one of the people that you mentioned actually uses our data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

That's so funny.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

So, yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

So our data is used, you know, we constantly get amazed by the use cases for which our API is used.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

It's everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

It's some of the people who actually could be considered our competitors use our API.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

There are companies that do payroll processing that use our data for analytics.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

There's a university in Finland that's doing scientific research on professional graphs that's using our API.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

Oh, wow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

So the use cases for this are quite varied.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

At the end of the day, there's a ton of data about professionals and their relationships, including their links on social networks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

So the data is very rich.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

Well, so we still haven't finished our first year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

I mean, I'll tell you openly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

So in 2015, right, we'd been working on this for, we started working on this a little bit around October.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

So we've been working for this for three months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

We've been, you know, we've been funding it ourselves.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP: 465: 120,000 Customers, About $200k MRR, $10M 2017 ARR Goal with RocketReach.co CEO Amit Shanbhag

December, you know, end of December 2015,