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Joel Sullivan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
182 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

I just write down ideas.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

And so this one really...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

took hold for me because I could see, OK, well, the market for robotics and drones in particular is going up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

It's clearly like there's tremendous demand for automation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

And you could actually structure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

I kept saying, OK, how can I structure an annually recurring contract that takes advantage of robotic automation?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

And we pivoted through a bunch of different answers to that question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

It originally started as, OK, maybe I can do subscription crop dusting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

And we looked at all the different ways that that could work, then realized, wait a minute, trying to bang my head against two regulatory agencies would be a total nightmare.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

And within the first year of our business,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

we had kind of said, okay, we'll structure this more as like a solution, get our arms around it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

And we started with kind of a fully integrated disaster response package.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

So right out of the gates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

So our first major customer was Comcast.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

And we got that customer by emailing a thousand employees at Comcast.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

And then finally getting in touch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Customers and $3m ARR, How this Drone Mapping Startup Landed Enterprise Deals

Oh, God, I don't even remember.