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Gary Guseinov

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
189 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

You've got to have all your financials in place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

You've got to make sure that your accounting control processes are all in place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

And you've got to make sure that your product works and that you don't get a lot of complaints on the Internet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

Like everything is scrutinized.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

And so the SEC, who reviews these underwriting documents,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

processes and reviews all your applications is very, you know, runs a tight ship.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

And so when you submit your application, you're going to get comments back, you have to respond to them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

And so those things are brand new.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

I was relatively young when I

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

Started the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

I was in my mid-30s and didn't have any experience running a public company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

And so it was quite a shock.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

How old are you now?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

Actually, we acquired the company from a previous owner and the company is already operating, but in a very small scale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

It had over 1.7 million enterprise users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

So these are people who have downloaded the application, installed it in their Google account.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

And it has over 700,000 registered users and has 70,000 enterprise users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

We had free accounts that we were giving out for a very long time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

And now our job is to take those free users and convert them into paying subscribers, which we're successfully doing now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

It's substantial.