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Jay Fulcher

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
211 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

It's, uh, we, we're really excited about what we're doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

Oh, we look at everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

You asked me, am I in a conversation with somebody?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

I'm not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

And if you know something about my background, you know that I've been relatively active and successful in monetizing companies over the years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

So for me, my job is to make sure all the options are on the table, whether we take the company public,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

Whether whether there's some other kind of a monetization event out there, quite frankly, like I said, you know, maybe I think you were the one that said it, you know, having the leverage to be able to make those choices as and when you want to is is basically the key for any entrepreneur.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

Well, first of all, I think that there are some segments of the private equity market or the private equity community that does think that way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

That's actually been a fairly proven model for them in different enterprise sectors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

I think the HR space, and I think you're well aware of this, the HR space is an interesting one because it's so damn big.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

It's just such a big opportunity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

I mean, 99.7% of all companies in the U.S.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

have fewer than 500 employees.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

So this is such a huge market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

Globally, this is about a $95 billion market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

And so for a lot of us, we have sort of the luxury of being able to follow in the footsteps of companies that have come before us that are now pretty much incumbent companies that have

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

built software maybe 10 or 15 years ago, and in some cases, unfortunately, even longer ago than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

And that really doesn't serve the needs of what I consider to be sort of this new nature of work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

You know, these are young companies that have only digital natives that are working in them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

They expect a product to work on a cell phone.