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David Barrett

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
146 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

I think that we think that the path to growth is not so much by increasing sort of

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

uh, how much you extract from each customer, but just getting more customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

And so I I'm much more focused on just massive scale than I am on trying to like, you know, squeeze harder.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

Well, I would say that's, I mean, yes, you could say that in that sense of all accounting ultimately deals with, you know, numbers that have a dollar sign in front of them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

And so they're all very similar.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

But there are differences there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

Like T sheet certainly has focused on making the best time role, sort of time tracking sort of software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

And it's not just about the numbers behind it, but it'll take a picture when you clock in, there's GPS tracking, there's a whole bunch of nuance around the space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

And so yes, it would be very easy for us to do shitty time tracking.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

It'd be very hard for us to do time tracking nearly as good as they do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

Sure, yeah, this is my office here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

Oh, wow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

It's actually my daughter's birthday.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

We rented this bus called the Tumble Bus, which is a whole gym that comes out, and it's just the whole thing that's going and playing out there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

Actually, all these books are my wife's books.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

She's an opera singer, and so everything down here is classical music.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

Everything up there is more history.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

And so I'm more of a digital person.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

I'm not much of a book person.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

I guess I would have to say The Innovator's Dilemma.