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Gadi Shamia

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
200 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

So if you ask where we invest a lot of our effort is R&D.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

We truly believe there's so much to do in this space that we have to continue investing in our engineering team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

It's also very different than anybody else in our space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

Most of our competitors in the call center space wouldn't invest more than 15%, something like 10%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

You know, Five9, InContact, Genesis, Avaya are the main competitors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

Most of them are more in maintenance mode than in innovation mode.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

The rest of our employees are split between sales, customer service, customer success, and professional services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

Sales, probably 80, including SDRs, sales operations, AEs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

Everything that makes up a sales team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

New customer signup is larger.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

Seed expansion helps to kind of amplify the growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

Neither.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

Come on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

Honestly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

So our investor, Joe Stein, was speaking at our sales keynote meeting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

And one thing I'll quote him on this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

He said, I'm amazed by how capital efficient doctors is and how fast it grows, given how much capital it spends.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

We are, as a company, really focused on building a real business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

This is something that Tiago is very focused on.