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Gianluca Ruggiero

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
108 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

We started developing in 2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

Just as a comment, our team is in Italy and we have more than 100 papers published on AI.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

So it's serious stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

Three people in the engineering, and we are like seven people right now, but we are very much scattered.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

We have two offices, but basically they're empty because our CFO is out of Paris, our SDR is in Chicago, the chief revenue officer is in Germany.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

It's just the way we built...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

I am very happy with the team that I built and a lot of talent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

But we didn't decide, okay, this is going to be the office today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

Now, the office, I'm here right now in Connecticut.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

So we serve mostly US market because it's the most dynamic and responsive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

But still, when it comes to talent, we have a very...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

Correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

Correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

Well, I think it's because it's very difficult to put together competence in marketing strategy and AI for transformation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

And during my...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

career, I was lucky enough to put together these two things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

One thing that I noticed from typical Silicon Valley data as a service company is that they don't know very well the marketing, the market they're targeting to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

So they don't understand what happens in companies, what they're really looking for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he doubled from $500k to $1m Last 12 months selling Data as a Service

And there is always this misunderstanding between what is a data point and an insight, which are two totally different things.