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Arun Sivasankaran

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
86 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

It's an interesting space, but it's also relatively new.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

So people have to understand kind of how to do it and be successful.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

Over the last 12 months, we're about 30, 70 services to products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

So 70% SaaS company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

Other way around.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

70% professional service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

More recently we're starting to flip the other way, but you look at like trailing 12 months, it's about 30% SaaS revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

That's exactly right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

Like we were, we were an agency for years actually doing conversion optimization and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

across like B2C, B2B, a wide variety of things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

I'm a product guy by background, but it was a way for us to sort of learn about the space, learn about where the opportunities were, where ultimately the white space does also build capability and knowledge.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

Over the last year, we have transitioned to a product company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

So that's been fueled by a lot of the learnings and cash from the agency business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

A couple million a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

Well, actually, I was thinking about moving into software on day one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

In fact, for one of the customers that I had, I built an integration between Marketo and Optimizely because I wanted to use the data that was in marketing automation to drive better sort of experiments and experiences on the website.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

That, over the course of a lot of iteration and evolution, led us to where we are now with the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1117 $3m Agency to $20k MRR SaaS, Here's How

Two years ago is what I technically consider.