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Iba Masood

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
197 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

Because one of the things we're realizing is that we're able to get to a higher account value with a lot of the enterprise customers we're talking to, specifically, even if they're just coming in on about $120.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

for three to six month pilots.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

So we're actually seeing an opportunity to grow beyond the 120K ACV as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

But we essentially need to get our enterprise security features up and running, which are another buy-in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

Right now, it's about 140%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

Oh, wow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

Uh, no, we were doing way less actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

We were doing about a 20 K. Holy mackerel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

that's, that's the plan basically, because a lot of the, a lot of the revenues coming in on a per project basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

And so what the goal is, is to essentially add the software component on top of the contractors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

I understand that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

So as of this month, we're looking at about 80K MRR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

But we're actually going to go from 80K to about 140K in the next two months because of the enterprise deals that we're almost about to close.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

But the key component here is we're essentially trying to understand how much of the security components and security features we need to have upfront before we start engaging in those enterprise discussions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

And I think that's something that every founder has to kind of

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

It was actually because that was the plan from day one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

So for us, what we wanted to do was we wanted to build scoping software that was essentially able to take on the specific customers that we were onboarding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

And what we found was we needed to close a lot of these per project, like we need to close a lot of these accounts on a per project basis to actually get the software to learn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning

That was essentially our goal.