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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

exits or anything like that.

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

So we got creative and, uh, and it's got us to where we got to today.

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

Yeah.

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

About 60% of the company.

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

Okay.

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

Well, so we, we were paying ourselves, uh,

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

We paid ourselves nothing for the first two years of the company.

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

And then as we started generating revenue, we paid ourselves, I don't know, some poverty level salary, like $30,000 a year, Canadian dollars.

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

And then it was 50.

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

And then we got up to like 80.

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

And, you know, we're trying to recoup some of the debt that we've personally lost.

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

put ourselves into.

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

But we feel comfortable doing those things because we have generated revenue, enough revenue to keep the business sustainable if we had to cut expenses.

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

But yeah, we cut our salaries recently 20%.

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

But we're in a position now where things look stable.

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

Like I said, it looks like

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

Yeah.

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

So, I mean, that took us a while to figure out.

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

So we say that we launched OB in 2017, which is, uh, when we were coming out of 500 startups, that's sort of when we pivoted in into OB away from the onboarding solution.

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

And it took us until last year to figure out churn.