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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

And, you know, the aim is to get it towards the 28K.

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

And we're releasing like, you know, we know what we need to do in terms of product strategy to get there.

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

Actually, only right now at the moment, it's only about 200K per month that we're burning.

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

That's net burn, right?

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

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly.

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

Interesting.

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

And so we were doing, you know, I think COVID actually helped us get way more efficient.

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

So we didn't need an office anymore.

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

Like, you know, it slowed our kind of headcount growth.

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

So there was a lot of positive effects, I'd say, from COVID and just making us more efficient in terms of how we worked.

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

So, and, you know, we really have an engine now where we can just put more money into

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

head count in terms of SDRs or into marketing and then get more growth.

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

Um, so it's just really a question of like, you know, how much we want to put the foot down on the pedal at the moment.

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

Um, Oh yeah, I think that'll be our next, our next round.

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

Got it.

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

fairly close.

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

Um, the hard thing about hard things by Ben Horowitz.

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

Yeah, of course.

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

Uh, Henry Shook, um, from, um, I just, I like that they have an incredible revenue machine and also just their path to IPO through organic and inorganic growth is, uh,

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

something to be studied.