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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

So that's our goal.

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

We've got our foot fully to the floor.

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

And in the early days, maybe not quite so much, but as soon as the space started heating up and you see big potential entrants and things like that,

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

let's try to just spend what we need to spend and get, get as aggressive as we can.

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

Um, not be silly about it, but you know, I think a first year spending the first year on, on sales and marketing costs is, is fine.

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

Yeah, we have almost no churn.

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

So the, the, um,

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

And if you look at it from, so the types of customers that we've had hit the pause button.

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

Essentially, our system, most of the time, for most of the use cases that people do, it's trying to improve a CRM that nobody was using.

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

So our system goes in, does a bunch of automation, and all of a sudden now there's great data in the CRM.

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

The problem is we've had some organizations where customers have said, we need to switch CRMs because we were with this company and then we moved to that one or whatever.

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

a lot of times that's a two year, uh, pause.

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

So if that happens, we have to go pause as well.

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

Um, is that churn?

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

I don't know.

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

Um, but other than that, among our enterprise customers, we haven't had any, any churn at all.

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

Yeah, our expansions haven't generally been that dramatic.

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

There have been some, especially when you have a customer of, let's say, 1,000 people, a lot of times we'll get fully deployed on day one.

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

If you have a company that's operating in 50 countries with 300,000 employees, a lot of times we start with,