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James McDonough

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
158 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

So we go in and out, uh, depending.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Uh, and so, yeah, it's been interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

We have some competitors that have raised, you know, a hundred million dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Name one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Uh, like, uh, I auditors almost there and, um, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

And there's a number of ones that have raised big venture dollars, which we don't really understand because I've,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

We've kept it lean and mean kind of on purpose.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Yeah, so I've got kind of a weird background.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Since I was 16, I worked for some pulp and paper, like an equivalent of kind of a refinery, but in pulp mills, sawmills.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Did that through all high school, university, then did my MBA in Australia and China, went into management consulting and spent a lot of time, I guess, on oil rigs, mining sites, kind of heavy industry sites all over Asia Pacific.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

And again, saw the frustration of end users at the time, kind of mobile.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

The iPad had just been released, which is hard to believe now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

And kind of the whole mobile first, that was the buzzword at the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

And we saw an opportunity to say, hey, this mobile thing is going to be big.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Let's make it super easy for the front line and just build a just elegant product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

that front.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Uh, I guess so.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

We've got some logos that have, uh, you know, those companies have, have their own in the hundreds of thousands of employees or a hundred thousand in tens of thousands of employees.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

And so trying to get mass adoption, uh, basically they call them strategic tools and that you're in, you know, you're, you're basically a strategic partner of those companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool

Yeah, I guess maybe they're usually location-dependent or country-specific, so it's either going to more basically facilities or... Locations.