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Chris Savage

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
809 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Wistia CEO, Chris Savage: Master the Art of Pivoting, How to Adapt and Grow Against the Odds | E61

Awesome. Well, look, thank you so much for having me. This is really fun.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Wistia CEO, Chris Savage: Master the Art of Pivoting, How to Adapt and Grow Against the Odds | E61

Awesome. Well, look, thank you so much for having me. This is really fun.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

Let's do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

I'm just at my desk, man.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

I mean, I would just say, um, we've been around for a long time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

We're a classic overnight success, you know, field of security for many, many years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

Um, and then figured out like how to build a freemium business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

Um, and we just help small medium sized businesses use video better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

And that means, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

analytics, see how your videos are performing, hosting, sharing tools, marketing tools, the ability to build channels.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

Like we have a ton of stuff to help people do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

Yeah, we're in the SMB space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

That's where we've set our target.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

I think any business that's freemium, you end up with customers across the spectrum.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

We're mostly SMB.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

There's some mid-market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

There's a little bit of enterprise in there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

But what it means for how we've built a business is that we have to be really efficient in how we get customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

We have to make a product experience that's incredibly easy, incredibly simple.