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Deepak Balakrishnan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
142 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

Our average size is about 50 to 80 seats.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

So that's the size of the company that's typically looking at us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

If you're much smaller than about 30 to 20, let's say about 30 to 40 employees, then you don't really have a problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

You're able to manage all of this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

Once you hit about 50 to about 500, that's when you really feel the pain and that's what we focus on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

So I was in the U.S.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

for 20 years and I moved back to India about a couple of years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

I wanted to do something on my own once I did that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

And second is that my last job was I was selling backup, backup into the cloud.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

And we were quite successful at that, at the most recent company, Dhruva.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

I was running product management for them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

Which company was that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

The company is called Dhruva, D-R-U-V-A.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

And we were selling backup from your laptops and your servers into the cloud.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

I mean, there are big players who do this EMC, Rubrik, OECP and the like.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

But more and more, I heard from my customers and my prospects then that backup is great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

I mean, that's needed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

But more than that, I just need to get control of what's moving to the cloud, just from a management and security perspective.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

So that got me thinking that there was an open problem here, especially for the mid-market who cannot afford the big tools.