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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

So the product is actually paying for itself.

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

What we wanted to really do with, with raising is to grow faster.

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

Um, so we wanted to hire some more engineers.

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

Um, we wanted to get into service and new markets and work, uh, on our partnership plays with other, um, in the HR space, HR software.

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

but then other enterprise vendors.

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

So it was a little bit of one, what we wanted to build and kind of estimating what we, what we think we needed in, in terms of manpower.

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

Um, you know, we already have a product that is paying for itself.

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

Our underlying, uh, what do you mean by that, by the way?

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

Uh, the product, so all of our customers are paid.

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

So we're actually generating revenue from our existing customers.

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

So, I mean, it's covering salaries for our employees.

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

It's covering our server costs and fees.

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

And it's covering our R&D costs.

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

So the capital is we wanted to hire more engineers.

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

This is what I was talking about.

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

We wanted to grow faster.