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Josh Martel

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

And just to clarify, it was 20K.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

20K.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

absolutely all right very cool um okay so that's so you're using that money to go towards testing what about a team today how many folks are full-time um four okay myself my co-founder um who are not paid um we're roughing it out and i just moved to san francisco so that is tough uh to be living here without a salary um and then we have two uh developers um

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

They're on contracts, but they're working full-time hours.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

We discussed it, but we both were very happy with 50-50.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

We've worked together before.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

He was actually the head of engineering at Thriver Technologies while I was head of product there at that time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

And we're actually now bringing on our head of marketing from Thriver as well, but he's joining part-time, so I didn't include him in the four I was talking about before.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

It's the former.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

Yeah, we're really focused on growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

We're confident that we can make this into a very valuable business people are willing to pay for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

We just don't want to get distracted from making the product really sticky and really valuable to our users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

So are you talking about product development or?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

Oh, I see, in terms of which software we procured for Thriver.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

I mean, I certainly loved being able to use products before having to make commitments to it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

It's not the most insightful response, and that's certainly not surprising to anybody.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

But the product-led growth is just really appealing to me as a consumer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023

Of course, it's very appealing to the vendor as well, because they don't have to deal with having salespeople on salary, et cetera.