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Chris Buttenham

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
161 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

No, I am not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

I'm, I'm a self self-taught product designer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

So I do, uh, all of the design work here at OB.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

Uh, and then of course all the other tasks that go along with starting a company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

We have about 40 mid-market customers, and then we just launched our browser extension, and that's super green, but that has more of a B2B2C focus, so that's going to be sort of a volume play.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

Yeah, we're doing about 25 K a month in revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

So we're still, we're burning about 30 K a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

No, actually, um, you know, we've been knock on wood sort of fortunate with this whole, this whole, uh, pandemic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

it's going to turn out net positive for us, at least so far.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

We made some quick, decisive actions at the beginning of the pandemic, just in case.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

We cut founder salaries and we lowered burn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

But interest has only increased, product usage has only increased, and sales have only increased since the pandemic with the shift to remote work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

Correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

Now, you know, it's not exactly binary because you've got annual subscriptions and monthly billing and stuff like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

But yeah, yeah, you're accurate there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

Yeah, I mean, I think that's what makes our team unique, is that we've constantly had to make those tough decisions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

Before we got into 500 Startups, the company was almost dead.