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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

We have Brian and I and eight advisors.

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

Okay, got it.

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

So you two are the only full-time folks?

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

Brian handles all the development and architecture and together we work on product and then I do the sales and partnerships.

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

That's actually our partners, Gold Tolstoy.

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

They're a new startup out of Israel that we really like.

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

But we have the live video communications, and we're partnering with them for the asynchronous video communications.

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

I see.

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

So we're partnering with other technology people that can kind of fill the gaps until we have a bigger team and can build everything internally as well.

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

Um, we love these API partnerships that we're working on.

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

Um, they're giving us access to all of their customer bases.

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 embedded into those platforms that will pick up our customers a lot and, uh,

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

We also have a product-led approach.

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

So we have developers building with our API right now internally in companies, and we want them to solve problems internally.

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

And then that will lead to a sale in those places as well.

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

So we think between the partnerships and the developers, that's how we're going to be expanding.

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

Yeah, great question.

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

Frankly, it's been a struggle.