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John Stern

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
157 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

So way back in the day, we were building an omni-channel contact center for this insurance agency here in San Diego.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

They kept buying other insurance agencies that wanted to be able to use all forms of communication, voice, video, text, and live chat from any device in any location.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

So we started building it for them and they ended up getting acquired by a private equity company before we finished the platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

So then we were sitting with this omni-channel contact center, kind of similar to like a talk desk or a dial pad or something like that, which to be totally frank, didn't excite Brian and I that much.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

building a kind of phone communication system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

What we really wanted to do is just give people the ability to connect from anywhere that they are and do anything they want from anywhere.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

The phone piece wasn't that exciting and we were a little bit more excited about video, but really being able to take it from physical to digital

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

Kind of brought it all together with the Omnichannel Contact Center and the actions and experiences that you can deliver through these codes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

So most of our customers in the beginning were all just phone and texting customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

And they were a much different kind of level of customer than we're looking at right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

Now we're going after enterprise instead of small business and mid-market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

If we include the old ones, we have probably about 45, but on the new stuff, we have about seven probably.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

No, not even close.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

Those were old customers that were paying much different.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

We're below $5,000 a month in revenue right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

But most of the deals that we have in our pipeline are larger than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

So as soon as we get those across the finish line, we'll be making moves.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

And who's we?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

What's the team look like?