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Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

It's something that the company gets value out of.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

So you have the incentive problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

And then you've also got the software problems.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

Most of the CRM systems were in the best case designed in the 90s, worst case designed in the 80s.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

And they're hard to use.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

If you've ever tried to use Salesforce or Salesforce's mobile application, you know it's a time consuming process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

And so if it's time consuming and it's annoying and you're not motivated to do it, you're generally not going to do it or you're not going to do it well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

And as a sales manager, as a sales operations leader, that makes it very difficult to run an efficient and effective sales team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

You don't have the underlying data to know, do I need to have more sales reps or do I need to have fewer sales reps?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

Do I need to have more leads or should I get my reps more focused on a fewer set of leads?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

And if you don't have the underlying data, you can't make those decisions effectively.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

Um, so this was, this was one of the Francisco mentioned the big insight here is flipping this problem on its head.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

And so we're about an 80 to 90% of the interactions now are prompted by pseudo.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

So the most important thing for us is they have to get all the way through the onboarding process where we get connected to the underlying data stream.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

So we get connected to their calendar.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

We get connected to their email.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

We get connected to their Salesforce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

Once we have that, and now we're proactively, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

or actively ping them with actions that they can take.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

And so what we see typically is we get a lot of interactions in the first few days because there's kind of this backlog of stuff that hasn't been entered into the system.