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Jan Elman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
170 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So we typically see churn at the start of getting a new customer on board.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

Once you're into the platform, once you've developed a bunch of applications, the stickiness is very good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

Also because you would have to redo your applications.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

For us, obviously, we have to stay up to date.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

The moment we don't keep our platform up to date, like three years ago, we had to go to HTML5.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So we had to basically redo a lot of parts of the platform to support HTML5.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

Five years ago, we had to deliver mobile for our customers to make sure that they could build and deliver great mobile applications.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

We really have to work very closely to our customers and really listen to what they need and also predict what we're going to need the next years so that we can start working on those capabilities.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So we have three teams at Servoy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

One is the sales and marketing team, and their responsibility is getting new clients on board and marketing the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

Then we have a, we call them an expert services team, and they're mainly in charge of customer success.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So they're in charge of once somebody decides to use our product, how can we make them truly successful?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

And we really switched our thinking in the past five years from inside out to outside in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

What is really what they need?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

What is really how we can help them with our product and platform?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

And the third group within Servo is R&D.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So that's the team that builds the actual platform so that the expert services team and the sales and marketing team can then deliver it to our customers.