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James Kennedy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
189 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

It was $160 million, which is the size of many IPOs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

Yeah, I'm very excited.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

I'm speaking to you from a sheep farming town, 200 kilometers from the nearest coffee machine in rural South Africa.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

Well, that's the one thing I have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

I have, in fairness, we invested in a very good coffee machine here because there's none that are available.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

And that was my requirement.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

When my wife wanted me to move here, I said, if you give me a really, really good coffee machine, I'll do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

Why'd she want you to move there?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

Um, we start, I tell people we move here to start breeding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

So we started having our first kid here, uh, five years ago, Max, he's, uh, almost five now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

That's correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

But,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

When you move to a sheep farming town, you pick up the vernacular of the locals, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

So I know a lot more about sheep farming than I did when I got here, I'll tell you that much.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

Anyways, we came here because we've always been digital nomads, if you like, for the last 10, 15 years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

And when it came to settle down, we just wanted to be near family.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

But we had a world-class business, even from a small town like this, and that's what we're doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

So no, we're outside Port Elizabeth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

It's in a place called a Karoo, which is technically a desert.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ

But yeah.

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