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Emil Brill

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
221 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

I felt that I met my monetary goals and I also felt that I'd learned and expanded that business to a stage that I was comfortable with and I was ready to take on the next challenge.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

So, I mean, again, this is a seasonal business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

A, because most of your staff are in school, high school or uni.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

No, no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

Roughly a million a year was where we were sitting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

Oh no, no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

This was, I mean, this was myself that had started that business, but there was, you know, a relatively large team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

It was a labor intensive business, not just on the actual completion labor side of the work, but also from a sales side as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

Sure, sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

So I started heading up sales for a high rise window cleaning company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

It's still, you know, within that world that I was familiar with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

And I started getting an idea of, you know, really that sticker shock when you go from we'll call it single family home to commercial.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

And by the way, just for definition purposes, when I say commercial, we're talking about office, condo, apartment, hospitality, hotels, anything that's not consumer single family homes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

And really, really got that sticker shock.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

Reason being is, you know, to clean the windows, let's say just the exterior windows of a single family home, one, $200.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

To clean the exterior windows of a, you know, an average condo or apartment building could be 10, $20,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

Or these contracts is multi-year contract to be, you know, in the seven figures, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool

And so...