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Bonnie Crater

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166 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

Two of us were ex-Salesforce people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

We worked at Salesforce.com.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

Did you?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

Yeah, I ran what's now known as the Service Cloud at Salesforce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

Yeah, a small business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

And Andrea Wilt, she was the product manager for the marketing product at Salesforce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

And then we had two other founders, Rowan Baer and Dan Appelman, and they were experts at the Salesforce platform and how to build applications on the Salesforce platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

You bet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

We use the Salesforce AppExchange, but the real story, of course, is that Salesforce doesn't give you your business, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

You have to earn it, and you have to build your own business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

That's nice.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

Our business is a little bit different.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

And so we sell to marketing people and the marketing folks that we sell to have a different channel for purchase than necessarily the app exchange.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

I'd been CEO once before.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

And I had

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

Well, yeah, financially, I didn't make any money, but, you know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

Or did you have your wholeβ€” Yeah, I was not homeless afterwards.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
825: SaaS: 4 Founders, 150 Customers Paying $30k for Pipeline and Revenue Management

That's good.