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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

I can't.

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

It's hard.

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

They won't hear because they're stuck in their victim mindset.

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

And I'm sure none of you have ever done that, but I'm sure you know someone who has.

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

And when you're stuck in victim, what you're committed to is having unsolvable problems.

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

So fuck anybody try to fucking solve that problem for you, because you're hooked into this idea that this problem is intractable.

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

It's really hard.

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

And so I realized, fuck, that's what I'm doing.

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

And Ben will realize, but we've worked together.

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

So I've been stuck in growth and trying to acquire customers for a long time.

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

And what I realized this morning was, shit, I got really good at computers because I was terrified of human beings.

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

Right?

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

Humans would say shit and would make me feel terrible.

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

And I wouldn't know what to do with it and suppress it.

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

And I was like, oh, they're awful.

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

And so I got really good at programming because computers wouldn't talk back.

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

And if it didn't do what I wanted it to do, I could debug it and figure out why and fix it.

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

Humans were scary.

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

And marketing and customer acquisition is all about people and getting them to do what you want them to do, right?

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

So I realized here I was playing victim when it comes to that.