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Jody Glidden

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
207 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

Um, or if you're dealing with, you know, we've, we had, um, we actually had a very large company that came inbound to us, uh, as a referral from another customer, we closed them in 60 days with almost no sales costs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

So, you know, I think, um, even if we do kind of go, you know, all out and we're spending a lot of client time on site with the client and everything,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

It's just not even one of the factors that, that we really worry about in terms of, um, you know, should we try to, should we try to spend less and get less deals?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

Well maybe, maybe that's what we're saying then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

What I'm, what I thought you were saying is that we should be spending or we should, you know, uh, be more careful with how we spend our on our sales and marketing costs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

Um, but I, I just don't, you know, that's not something when we're looking at our most important metrics, the amount that we're, we're, uh, you know, spending, it's a very small percentage of the overall, the things that matter most to us in getting good margins are,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

Things like our hosting costs, our security costs, those are through the roof.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

It's very expensive for us to deploy private environments for these large enterprise customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

We do private encrypted cloud, so it's like a SaaS model, but...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

PwC can own it, for example, if they want.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

So that's pretty expensive for us to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

And we're always looking at ways to try to make that more efficient.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

No, no years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

I think a year is still fine at this kind of stage.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

Right now, the most important thing for us is we're not operating in a bubble, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

This is becoming a very, very hot space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

And we have to make sure that it's a bit of a land grab.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

We need to get as many big logos as we can as quickly as we can and do a great job in routining them.