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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

Yeah.

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

Yeah, definitely.

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

Um, we, we were, we basically came into the market being able to offer more than our competitors were able to offer, but at a lower price because we were bootstrapped and didn't have any capital, didn't have any debt to pay.

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

Boy, about a year ago.

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

Um,

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

I would say we were probably, you know, honestly, I don't know off the top of my head, but probably about 1 to 1.5 down from where we're at now.

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

I can tell you're good with your numbers.

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 right now we are about to breach the 100 staff member mark.

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

We've got about 56 people here in our Chicago office.

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

And we've got about 45 in our Chengdu office.

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

Where's that?

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

Which country?

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

That's in the Sichuan province in China.

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

So when I met my business partner and he came into Kidney Cancer Association, he was originally from China.

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

He'd worked for Ford, Motorola, IBM, and had made some good money and did really well.

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

Ended up selling his house and car and decided to start this company.

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

Well, he didn't make much money at all in the first few years.

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

I'm not sure he was happy he did it in the early years.