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Jim Yu

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
150 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

So ultimately there's also an element of how do you sustain that over time?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

It's a constant struggle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

I've never found it to get easier.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

It's always a new set of challenges.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

And so I think it's very important to keep in mind sort of, you know, health and also the relationships.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

It's not something I'm great at, but you can kind of see on the left-hand side is my heart rate, resting heart rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

I track this on my Apple Watch because it tells me when I'm under way too much stress.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

You kind of see the ebbs and flows of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

That's important just to get a sense, find your own way, right, by, like, understanding what you're putting your โ€“

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

your physical and your mind sort of pressure that it's under and balancing that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

And then what I found like with my wife, it's just kind of relationships as well, right, is a great way to sort of connect.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

One of the things that I found with my wife over time is, since it's been over a decade, in the beginning we used to have date nights every week, but what we found is we'd get a nice dinner, watch a movie, and then ultimately after a couple years of that,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

gained a lot of weight.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

So instead, what we found is there's this great trail in the back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

There's a great trail that's near our house.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

And what we switched it to was every Sunday, we would take a one-hour walk together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

And that walk for the last 10 years has been great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

It's a great way for us, for her to share with me what's going on with the family, for me to share what's going on with...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

with the business or whatever was going on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Want a $100m revenue machine? Copy this monthly cadence, BrightEdge CEO

And it's just a great way to connect, right?