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Clate Mask

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
407 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

Thanks, Nathan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

Appreciate it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

Thanks for the opportunity to clear the air a little bit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

Appreciate it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask

I am Nathan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask

That's quite an intro.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask

Yeah, great question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask

Well, a huge part of it is making sure that you've got the right target customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask

When you serve small businesses, you know, there are 27 million in the U.S.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask

on record.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask

There are probably at least that many that aren't on record in the U.S.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask

And then the numbers globally are, you know, even bigger than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask

So a massive, massive market, you got to serve the right kind of small business customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask

And I think that's probably been the biggest thing for us over the years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask

And we haven't always got it right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask

I mean, we got our ups and downs and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask

challenges over the last 12, 13 years, particularly about six, seven years ago when we didn't get it quite right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask

And it just about killed us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask

So you got to get it right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
637: Reason Infusionsoft Didn't IPO, Passes $100M ARR, $125M Raised, Helping 45,000 SMB's With Marketing and Sales Automation with CEO Clate Mask

You got to get the product market fit.