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Julian Delane

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
147 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

What we want to have is a coding assistant that people use every single day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

So right now, we really focus on the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

Once you have this product market fit and this retention, then you're going to increase the spending, the monthly spending for doing more marketing and more sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

That makes a lot of sense.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

It's more conservative right now because we developed the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

Once we lock product market fit, let's go and make more marketing and more sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

I think the favorite business book would be Principle from Ray Dalio.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

I think that's a book that gives you principles for how to manage a company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

And I apply some of these principles at Codiga.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

Maybe that one will be a little bit controversial.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

I like Brian Armstrong's story at Coinbase.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

The way he manages the company is really principle-driven, and I like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

Okay, maybe this one is really silly, but something that helped me a lot is Calendly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

Because you don't need to go back and forth with two or three emails and follow all these emails about finding a time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

Calendly is simple.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

One link and you schedule a meeting, you got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

Not enough.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

I mean, look at how I'm dressed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

It's obvious.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Burning $55k/mo Building Freemium Tool for Developers, 15k users, $1.2m Raised

I'm single.