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Calvin Corelli

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
303 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

And then I was on the phone with Nathan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

I was like, hey, I'll see you at SAS Open.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

He's like, I bought my ticket.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

I was excited about this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

And he's like, oh, that's great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

You're coming.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

Yeah, we should have you speak.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

And so I landed the speaking gig from this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

So not bad.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

And in the end, we actually, so I took money, just 400k for now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

But then because of this, I realized

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

Holy crap, I can have growth capital available to me that I can then invest in team and marketing and other things rather than I was in this kind of scarcity mindset of operating everything from just the free cash flow of the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

So it turned out really, really remarkable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

And I'm trying to look here to figure out what my time is, but I'm not seeing it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

OK, great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

Cool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

So really the point here is that the opportunity is if you keep doing this, as you keep doing it, not only is this going to be the source of your biggest breakthroughs, but also we all know like every, I have all the leadership books that I've ever written.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

They all talk about that the core to being a great leader is to really know yourself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

And being authentic, being real with people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue

And the more that you do this, the more that you dig into those feelings, feel them, let them go.