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Gary Guseinov

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
189 total appearances

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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

Our churn is less than 10%.

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

Yearly or monthly?

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, it's relatively accurate.

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 mean, this was not a large acquisition.

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 in terms of, you know, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, BC world.

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

very very small compared to silicon value valuation was this like a you know a high school developer in his basement that got a lot of users that you found in the app store reached out and he was like beyond thrilled to sell it or she was beyond thrilled to sell it to you uh no it was not it was not that kind of scenario this is somebody who's been around the block they've uh done a good job sort of positioning in the market a product that was well you know well uh liked and and and uh

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

with lots of users, but didn't have a sort of the right skill set to monetize.

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 monetization is super important, obviously, but particularly in enterprise SaaS businesses, it's actually very complicated because the life cycle, sales life cycle is very long.

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 process of- This sales cycle is not long though, right?

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

Um, no, they do require touch and, and require, uh, you know, you know, phone call or a demo, uh, and, and with all these products, so even go to meeting and, and, and Citrix, uh, you know, they, they require you to, to do a demo.

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 features are really important.

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

A lot of our customers want specific things.

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

Uh, we figured it out.

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, we figured out how to do it.

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 do it very efficiently.

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 don't spend a lot of time in the phone.

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 do it.

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

Yes, absolutely.

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're doing all of that.

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're doing one to one, one to many.