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Jeff Seibert

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
234 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

So we're really excited how the products come together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

And you asked about distribution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

I'd say one of the key things is we focus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

We did the same thing at Crashlytics.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

We focus more on distribution than on the initial first product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

It's basically how do you orchestrate, how do you engineer getting it into this market and having it spread?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

And so Crashlytics was hard viral.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

We were likely one of the first developer tools to think about virality.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

And when a developer started using it, they actually put it in their app and we broke their build in the nicest way possible so that every other engineer on their team would find out about Crashlytics and then start using it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

Mm-hmm.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

And so, of course, we're not going to break your accounting, but we think about it in similar ways with digits.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

How do we build viral workflows into the end of month close, into you sharing a report with your investors, into you giving maybe your head of marketing access to just the marketing spend?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

If you think about finance from a viral lens, it gets really interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

That's a really great question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

I think you'll need to ask them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

I would say both of those products started a while ago in a different mindset with different teams.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

QuickBooks has had an 80% market share since 1992.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

And so, yes, they've started to innovate a little bit more recently, but I think they are very much grounded in some of their earliest approaches and we'll see what we can do to outrun them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next

So we are fortunate to be very well-backed.