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Ari Salafia

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
358 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

This is an example of us being just really, really intentional about our product roadmap, what's important from a business case standpoint, and most importantly, what's important

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

important to our customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

So we take a really high-level approach to start.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

What are the things we're hearing from our customers?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

What are the things that our internal team wants to see?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

What are efficiencies that can be made?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

In the brain date that we had just before this, I was talking about how we had a two-month, $100,000 integration project, and now I pay $500 a month to get to 80 times the

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

Huge, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

So had I known that that was something that existed, $100,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

You have to go through some pain sometimes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

But with everything that we do, we always are bringing it back to, will this get us to more customers?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

Will it actually make our customers go through

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

through the process faster?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

And will it create more revenue for the business and it will make our employees happy?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

It's really easy to want to over-engineer things all the time, get into kind of feature fatigue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

But for us, we've just been really, really disciplined from an engineering standpoint, having to go through a couple of iterations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

So now we just instill a lot more automation

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

through processes rather than like deep tech inside of our product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

So these are just kind of some screenshots of kind of our quick sprints.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I competed with $1M at TaxTaker vs. $100M in competitor funding

So staying disciplined, yep, easy to slip into next feature.