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Francisco Larrain

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
125 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

You said that you want to create a follow-up in the next week.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

Do you want me to remind you?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

And I add that information into Salesforce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

We are, we're pre-revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

We're private beta.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

We don't believe in the MVP philosophy in the systems because building a chatbot, and we can go more over the conversational problem, but it's an incredibly hard problem to solve.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

So what we're doing is that we're working with like 30 or 40 customers right now, users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

And, you know, we've learned tons from them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

And, you know, also we've, you know, we're not charging them because sometimes we have a bar

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

and like, you know, all those things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

So, and we're engaging pilots with five companies right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

And with one of them, we are about to close them, finishing a pilot with them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

They're very excited about the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

And so we believe that we're going to start charging per user per month for reps that use this system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

And we want to move in the long term for more of an account based charging model where we essentially discriminate different companies by the amount of accounts they have in Salesforce and we charge you for those accounts because we believe that we can enrich the data and we can have the company

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

put a lot of data into our systems so we can suggest the rep who is the next lead that they want to call and build essentially a model of machine learning around that information.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

Yeah, the interaction before, when it was essentially reactive, it was like two or three times for the 20% of the customers that are the most engaged, from two to three times a week to five to seven times a day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

So we really kind of like boosted the interaction a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

And we, yeah, so that's very sticky with the rep and that helps us to push the data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain

I think the big leverage of this company is surfacing a dashboard to managers and C-level execs to kind of understand how their products are getting sold through the channels.