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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

built this way.

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

They're purely focused on web conferencing.

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

They sort of separate the capabilities of webinars and web conferencing and make it more challenging for average users to use a platform.

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

Yeah.

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 know, I wish I could tell you more.

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

The reason is, is that we've had a lot of inquiry into the business recently from potential investors.

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 agree, but our goal right now is not to raise capital.

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've actually gone somewhat investor agnostic at this stage.

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

Myself and my partner, Sean Wiley, who's helping me grow this business, have a lot of experience raising capital and running fairly large organizations.

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

Well, and not to use reverse psychology to attract attention.

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 certainly not my intent.

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

My point is simple, is that we're trying to grow a business based on pure unit economics.

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 want to make sure that our business is viable with...

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 know what we have built with a pricing model with our technology and we're gonna you know we're gonna struggle a little bit in this early stage but i think we're gonna come out ahead we think we're a strong contender to multi-billion dollar entities that we're competing against

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 believe we have a better offering.

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 want to be part of the ecosystem of Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, rather than being a standalone application, which most of our competitors are focused on building.

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 from that standpoint, we leverage the crowd, we leverage

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

ecosystems that already exist in the marketplace versus trying to build a lot of technology.

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're building a lot, you need capital.

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 this is not a capital intensive company.