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Chris at Blackthorn.io

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270 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

We also do 3,000 a month to watsi.org.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

They fund surgeries in developing countries for people that really need the help.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

And these kind of concepts, they're not really politically charged or religion-based or something.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

So a lot of the team, no matter where they're from, they can relate to them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

And it's been a nice benefit that everybody's gone for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

So these are off-to-the-side partnerships that have really helped the culture.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

So in terms of what it is that we wanted to build,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

Paul Graham sort of says, listen to your customers on what it is that they want to make.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

They're going to tell you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

And that's true.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

Steve Jobs said, if everybody said, give me a faster keyboard, I never want to end up with the iPhone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

But in the world of enterprise, B2B, SaaS, just listen to them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

They'll tell you what it is that they want.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

So we've more or less done that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

And that's taken us down the right path of everything that people want to pay more money from.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

This is product board, and we just take everyone's information that comes in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

We have an ideas portal, and we just aggregate it all into this one platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

It gets voted up, and then we assess what we want to do based upon effort and the revenue that we can bring in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

So after you have all this stuff, don't be afraid to raise your prices and tell the story and build the value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue

So founders suck at pricing.