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James Islay

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
195 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

So it was a double bonus, really.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

I believe it's like in both regions, it's about 60.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

Yeah, I asked that to be corrected.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

There's like a double count there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

So I asked that to be corrected, but it hasn't.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

I'll chase them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

We have like 15 coders and we have 24 with DevOps, which includes QA as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

Like 24 with DevOps and QA.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

Um, uh, I would, so I would say like carry a quote carrying quota.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

Um, uh, I would say that's around about, um, 12 right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

Um, so, so in terms of the, the actual quote, I mean, um, right now, uh, uh, uh, like, uh, so in terms of the actual BDMs, uh, or I guess you call account executives, um, they have like a minimum target of around about $8,000 of, um, quota that they're meant to be bringing in per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

Um, so, uh, that that's, and then in terms of commission, we're just about to change our commission model right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

It's, it's, you know, I've been told it's very generous.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

Um, and, and we, we kind of set targets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

We, we, you know, we've, we've been setting targets so that, you know, generally like almost all of our reps always hit that, hit that target.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

So we were quite generous on the targets and we're getting, getting a little bit tougher, uh, now in terms of targets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

So, um, yeah, but it's, it's around, it's 8,000 minimum that they need to hit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

You want to sit over here?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

That would be a little bit tougher.