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Bassem Handy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
188 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

I mean, we guessed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

So we hired our first engineer and guy sat at Pune, India.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

He's still with us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

He's actually SVP of automation today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

And we, it was me, my co-founder, Ron Goldschmidt, and a gentleman by the name of Ash Kapoor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

And then we started adding more and more people, obviously, but the first client was a friend of mine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

So three co-founders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

Sega.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

No, well, I mean, technically there's two and Ash was kind of the first technical hire.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

So a friend of mine had a robotic issue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

They needed to work with Meta, Facebook, on a project management platform that Facebook wanted them to use.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

And they were forced to hire people to do data entry into this Facebook platform to do this data center construction project.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

So we said, this is a great use case.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

I think we charged them like $12,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

for the entire project.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

We were just hoping for anything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

We really just needed proof points.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

And we literally went out there and built a robot that took data from the general contractor system and put it into Metasystem and vice versa.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

Because they're obviously, when you have a cross platform like that, there's no API access.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

I think that's really kind of the fundamental.