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Chris Brisson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
565 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

And it was just debilitating, to be honest.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

And so as much as I was looking to grow this company, it just wasn't something that, you know, I wasn't happy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

I was very sort of depressed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

You know, I raised $90,000 in like 2012.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

And I'm like, man, I just took somebody's money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

And it's not a lot of money, but this thing sucks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

It's not going to really grow in scale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

So in 2015, I wrote this three-part series.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

But before we do that,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

I want to share with you guys what I call the bubblegum strategy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

And hopefully if I press play, there we go.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

This way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

So let me know if this is how you feel about your SaaS company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

Please keep up with the tour.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

So anyhow, this really represented what Call Loop was.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

As much as we were... Let's see if we can stop it here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

There we go.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

So as much as I wanted to fix this product, fix this problem, it was like, oh my gosh, we're putting bubbled gum and tape on this, and every problem that we tried to solve or fix, it just turned into a complete nightmare.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

So I went through basically a period where I was like, I don't want this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth

And so I wrote a three-part blog series where I was just like, I need to tell this story.