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James Sturges

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
225 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1

That's great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1

And we've had, I think some of our really early success actually came from also going to two different major conferences, in which case we sort of all got together and did a lot of strategy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1

Which two conferences?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1

So these were in the HR space, uh, the Sherm conference in Chicago, which is the largest, uh, SHRM society, human resource management, um, which was in Chicago this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1

That's probably the largest professional HR conference.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1

And then the other one, which was interesting because those are not really tech buyers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1

Those are more the, the HR generalists and the actual business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1

And what's the second one was the HR tech conference in Vegas.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1

which was even more interesting because those are actually technology buyers, not so much the business right within HR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1

Um, you know, great question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1

So a lot of the early investors, um, most of the early investors were kind of friends and family, so to speak, uh, or actually it was more high net worth individuals that are friends.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1

SafeNote was kind of the preferred choice.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1

I think looking at what Y Combo is doing and a lot of the way that they've structured some of their deals, this seemed like a really interesting way for us to play the deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1

I think a lot of our investors also were appreciative

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1

Um, so no other particular reason other than, than that, if that makes sense.