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Jeff Gordy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
166 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

Okay, so here's a big question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

Looking back, was it worth it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

Oh, completely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

Oh, my goodness.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

You know, everything taught me about karma.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

And that's why I am where I am today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

If you do bad things, bad things come back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

Yeah, sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

So the average customer is paying us about a little under $200.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

We do have some customers that are paying us as little as $50 a month and some that are paying us over $1,000 a month, really based on the size of the nonprofit and what they need.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

But all of this started when I was going back to school and working at the Kidney Cancer Association and my partner came in with a beta test platform and said, hey, will you guys test this out at the Kidney Cancer Association?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

Because I was working there just part-time and entering gifts and was absolutely amazed that you could help people and make money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

But I had a background in using sales software and marketing software, and I was falling in love with nonprofits.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

So my partner was a developer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

So what we did is we just kept adding more and more and more features.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

We started off with no capital, absolutely nothing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

I think we paid ourselves 5K the first year, 15 the second.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

You're talking about Neon.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1210 How this Niche CRM player passed $7m in ARR after CEO Stroke

We are what we should.