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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

For us, remembering the vision and what our why is and where we started, where we are, where we're headed, and getting that continual buy-in from the team, that's really important to us as an organization.

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

Everyone has egos, but we like to say that we have kind of a no-asshole policy.

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

We are not... I was in a sorority.

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

I loved frat parties.

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

We are not a frat party.

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

That's just not the way we do business.

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

It's not...

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

Just do it at any cost, any ethic, whatever.

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

Our competition is a lot like that.

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

And that's the feedback we get.

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

It's grow at all costs, hustle, just sign anyone up, even if they don't qualify, whatever, we'll get to it later.

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

We are not like that.

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

We know that we have something valuable to offer.

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

We're just helping a customer get what they deserve.

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

Um, and we're going to do right by them and we are just, just super authentic.

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

And we know that that wins because ultimately people remember people, not logos, unless you're Nike.

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

So our team today, we're small and scrappy.

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

There's six of us and seven with an intern, and then we have a small contract network.

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

So we have determined that because of the technology that we've built,

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

With our delivery team, we can do five times the amount of work than a traditional practitioner can do in this space.