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Chris Aranzio

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
125 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

And you get so much great knowledge from the cohort and the ones that are churning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

I think one of the things we've done well in the last year is we've gotten scientific about why people cancel and calling customers and having conversations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

And it's like free market study research.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

They signed up, gave us a month or two or three months of revenue, covered their acquisition costs, and we learned how to get better in the future.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

So I think it's healthy if the economics work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

Surprisingly, we just crested the profitability, cashflow profitable mark.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

Um, the, the, and that's due to annual sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

So annual sales coming in the cashflow from those, um, you know, keeps our, it keeps us right about break even.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

Um, whether we, we start to burn, take on new debt, take on equity, it's kind of up in the air right now, but, um, that's, that's where we're at.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

And I feel like it's a good place to be.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

And the reason would be if it was strategic, if they've done the small business scaling path before, if they've got connections for us, if they've got... There's, I think, more reasons to take equity than beyond just the financial side of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

So I'm open to anything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

The...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

The one with the best terms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

Let's wrap up, Chris, with the famous five.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

Number one, favorite business book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

I just read Radical Candor and I would listen to it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

I listened twice and it was so helpful for where we're at in our team size.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Trainual Hits $3m ARR, 3x YoY Helping 2500 Customers Document Key Processes

I'm in a, I'm in this group called SAS Academy with 75 other CEOs.