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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

And this year in COVID slowed down our lifestyle a lot.

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

So I think a lot of things came together to allow this to happen.

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

To be frank, we probably are going to do a raise quite soon after we sign a few of these enterprise deals.

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

So that will alleviate some of the pressure.

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

But really, it has been a struggle to make it this far.

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

And

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

We weren't full-time on it up until recently, so we did have other incomes until then.

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

But bootstrapping a business is hard, and you're never certain that you're going to make it.

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

But in the end, there's a higher risk and a higher reward.

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

And the story is really just the traction that we have with our enterprise deals and what's going to be coming in the pipeline in the next month or two.

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

There's some pretty exciting brand names and some big opportunities.

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

So I think that the investors are going to be pretty excited about that.

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

Business book.

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

Or book in general.

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

I like The Godfather by Mario Puzo.

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

I don't think everything needs to be that serious.

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

Number two, is there a CEO you're following or studying?

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

I really like Jeff Lawson at Twilio and David Cancel at Drift.

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

Eric over at Postal, sorry.