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Ben Kartzman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
147 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

So a lot more on the low end, more transactional business, no licensed software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

And as it's moved and morphed into this dynamic, creative self-service platform, it's moving in that direction where we are going after the large enterprise customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

So yeah, the Fortune 100, Fortune 500, that's really where we focus most of our energy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Yeah, it's tough.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

What we did was we raised minimums.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

So, you know, we phased out certain products when there were certain products we just stopped doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

And then we raised minimums really around those products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

And we just said to people, hey, listen, we know you've gotten accustomed to working with us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

We know you like working with us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

And it's been great providing you with this level of service over this time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

What do you mean?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Yeah, so we're probably a little bit lower on that end of the spectrum in terms of percent of working media dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

I would say, you know, we're actually probably in like the, in the 10% range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

I think it's more people aren't leaving the current tool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

I think it's kind of the old stuff where it was less it was, it was just a different business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

It was kind of a different model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

And it was, you know, more services intensive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

So for us, it was,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

More of just like, listen, if you really want us to do this, we will, but we'll charge you for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

And we'll charge you at such a rate that it's probably going to be cost prohibitive.