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Christian Schmidt

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
130 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

Between $500 and $2,000 per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

The company was founded in 2007 as a spinoff of the Ashampo Group, which is a software development company since over 20 years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

Well, I met someone in 2014, the owners of the companies, and I was looking for a new perspective and a new challenge.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

And then we talked about the opportunity with Cleveridge.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

And they hired me to bring Cleveridge into the next level.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

Correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

Well, they are not involved in the operational business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

I do see them twice or three times a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

And they let us do what we want to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

A really perfect relationship.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

Well, that's difficult.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

You know, it's always our goal to be an agile team, like which can drive in the speed road.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

You know, we do have teams in Hamburg, Munich, New York and Canada and in Italy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

And yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

Oh, well, we are around between 50, 30 people, depending on how you count our employees, because we work together with teams on an outsource basis and we employ directly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

Just full time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

Well, between 30 and 50 people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

I am based in the headquarter in Germany and in Russia, which is near Bremen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

Yes, of course.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1481 Don't lie to yourself. "Free Users" are not "Customers"

Well, we now have over 200,000 customers.