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Chris Straw

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
182 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

And the folks that like, you know, the rules of SaaS are essentially like, you know, remove as many barriers as possible from people touching and paying for your product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

And so that's that's what we do with the $25 a month thing is like, hey, you want to try Knapsack, you want to have an account so that you actually get things like support and help to get yourself onboarded.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

And so that's where that offering comes in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

And that's largely about getting people interested in the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

There are tons of people, though, that just use it every month and they pay their twenty five dollars and are happy with it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

And then, you know, that that ultimately is intended to lead to folks converting to enterprise where they say, like, my team has tried this for a couple of months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

We love it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

We want to take the next step, get a bigger group of people on board, get another team on board.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

And that's when people move into that that enterprise space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

So 2.3, we raised at a seven and a half post money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

Yeah, I mean, like, you know, frankly, we were in a situation where, you know, we didn't really, we had a product that was in market technically.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

But like I said, we had about two customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

And so it wasn't really... They invested before the growth then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

It wasn't really a thing then, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

Like last January, like we had no idea if we were going to get this to work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

And what was interesting is our initial plan was to target larger accounts.