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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 the idea with this was the subject line, I sent it to our whole list, about 35,000 people, customers, users.

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

Maybe there's people in the room that were on that list and got this.

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

And the title was The Death of Call Loop.

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

And it was a journey and a story of me just saying, you know what?

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

I built this business that I secretly despised.

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

And if you've ever been in that place, it is a not a great place.

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

But what came from this, and people were commenting, I tried to find the comments this morning on Disqus, but I couldn't find them.

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

And people were hating me.

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

People were saying this is the best thing ever.

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

And it was just a very weird moment.

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

But it was like the most impactful moment I had in my sort of entrepreneurial journey.

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

The end of this story was, you know, it was a three-part sequence, two days that went out.

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

And the third part was follow my journey as I reinvent this business from the ground up as a second chance startup.

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

And so I posted it, had hundreds of people sign up for this email list, and then I freaked out.

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

I'm like, oh, my God, people want to follow this journey of me inventing and reinventing this business and documenting this whole journey.

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

And so about, you know, I brought in a new co-founder guy I worked with before.

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

And I said, all right, man, let's get going with it.

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

We started working on it for a month.

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

And then about a month and a half later, I said, hey, how long is it going to take?

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

And he's like, a year and a half.