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Jay Gibb

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
120 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

There's some differences there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

I'm probably about 60, 40 in favor of cloud sponge right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

I'm the one I'm responsible for cloud sponge.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

But I, you know, I still have work to do at the agency.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

It's a good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

I ask myself that all the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

Are you bootstrapped?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

Uh, well, if you count like some initial funding that came from the agency as bootstrap, then yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

We initially set aside a hundred grand to, to do an experiment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

And actually that experiment, uh, didn't work out, but cloud sponge was one of the things that we discovered in that journey.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

And so then we doubled down and put another hundred grand to actually like

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

get cloud sponge to market and get it to a place where it was paying its own bills.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

Uh, you know, we went up and then down.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

We kind of went up at one point, you know, the peak was around 2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

Uh, we had almost a thousand customers, but they were like crappy customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

Turn rate was pretty high.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1565 Why CloudSponge CEO Thinks Killing Agency for SaaS Is Actually Bad

How high?