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Chris Mack

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
119 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

People start a new platform, try their hand at it for three months or six months or a year and then leave.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

So we're seeing a lot of churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

I mean, this was a while back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

So I'm not sure I could even give you the exact numbers anymore.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

But what we were seeing is like, we're working harder and harder and harder and not really seeing the kind of growth that we were used to seeing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

And so we kind of were faced with a choice and it was either, you know, revamp our entire kind of process and revamp our entire, the way we were approaching everything or accept that it was never really going to

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

scale as a startup.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

And it would be a really it was a nice business and accepted it as that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

So that's basically where we've gotten to is that we stopped growing probably a few years back and we went fully remote and now we manage everything remotely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

and manage our existing customers extremely low.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

You know what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

I don't even check anymore, but I would say it's less than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

It's probably sitting at... Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

We don't talk about how many customers we have because that doesn't really help our customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

There's like, that was part of the startup game.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

It's part of the thing that we realized moving into this is that like, there's two ways to approach a new business and one is to try to play the startup game and- What do you mean?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

play the startup game so when you enter for when we entered um when we started building this company there was a lot of drive and a lot of people pushing you know to take uh investment dollars for example or to uh you know really focus on all the metrics that you've been talking about churn mmr mr like there's really important baseline things but they're they're really important

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

if you've got a certain goal in mind.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

We're still not releasing those numbers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell?

I guess it was just a decision that we made a while back.