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Jesse Leimgruber

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
127 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

LinkedIn mostly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

And we did some email too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

And the first, we had a couple of tiny startups that maybe spent $1,000, but the first real customer we got was Zappos.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

The CMO of Zappos actually responded himself, introduced us to his ad agency, introduced us to someone else at Zappos, and they signed up for

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

I think that it was a small deal at the time, $5,000 for a year license, but it was meaningful to get Zappos and they were our first recognizable brand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

We are spread out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

We have an engineering office in Orlando.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

We have a sales and marketing office in Austin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

And then we've got

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

And it's a software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

It's not tied into the infrastructural stack of their company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

It's not like AWS or something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

So relative to some businesses, we have high churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

But over the last year, we've actually been pivoting a lot of customers to our API product where it is actually tied deeply in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

Yeah, for sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

It's closer to 20% of customers churn, but we grow at a significantly higher rate than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

And the ones that stick kind of really expand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

The ones that tend to churn tend to be the $25,000 a month, the $25,000 a year customers, they tend to not be deeply integrated.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1670 How This 24 Year Old Built a $12M ARR Company on $4m Raised in Influencer Marketing Attribution Space

And the primary reason they churn isn't usually a product problem on near reach, it's more or less a marketing software for particular niches of marketing, and they just can't justify it relative to their