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Gary Saranrota

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
228 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

We also took this time to retrench like a six month pause.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

We kind of, you know, updated our sales process and our sales team and changing the way we go to market a little bit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

So, so there's some changes in that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

So there's a couple of direct sales positions that we eliminated, getting different kinds of people involved in sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

So more of the senior leadership team being involved in sales and trimmed a few client positions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

client people and a few kind of uh general and administrative staff really you know kind of you know trimmed the excess really but didn't didn't uh take away any staff that's directly contributing to customers sat or bringing new sales i think that was the so how many quota carrying reps do you still have today then so today we have i'd say we have like uh

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

you know, three quota carrying reps, but the process now, but we've added with the leadership team being more involved in sales, I'd say before our sales team was about eight in total.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

Now it's like 11 in total with a different mix of skills, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

So I think we sell enterprise software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

The realization was that we're selling a partnership wrapped around a product, not just a product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

And so getting the people who deliver to our customers more involved in selling, that's been the big change.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

And so that mix of

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

quota-carrying rep versus subject matter expert.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

That's where we really

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

brought in more subject matter experts and gave them a role to participate in sales more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

Yeah, I mean, we deliver, the goal is net income growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

I mean, we do have an insurance fraud solution, which is more traditional fintech.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

So in the same way that we help retailers make smarter merchandising decisions, we help insurance companies with fraud detection and underwriting and claims automation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

So our system, it says, what are the best operating decisions you could make to grow net income?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021

That's really the deliverable.