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James Isilay

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
171 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

They were more a PLG motion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

So I wanted to get a PLG motion for, you know, because we weren't very skilled at that, and our IT team wasn't.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

So I wanted for us to get the skill set for that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

I think it's just giving them the resources that they needed to grow more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

So using our marketing engine, we have a really great marketing engine, Alistair Corsi, who's a... So that skill set, bringing that skill set to them so they got better at marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

I think...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

Right now, we kept the businesses separately.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

So we've got the PLG business under a separate brand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

We haven't brought it in under the same brand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

And we're really going after different countries and territories with it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

So right now, we're keeping the businesses separate, and we're keeping the motion separate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

And all I'm doing is giving them more resources so they can do PLG better and more on scale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

So, I mean, I think that's the difference.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

I mean, the IT teams are different.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

The IT teams are in Tunisia, where we're paying, like... I don't know where... James, I have no idea where that is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

It's in North Africa.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

Missed the geography part as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

Okay, cool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

So different geos.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

Yeah, different skill sets.