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Justin Mitchell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
305 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

It's all recorded.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

It respects both people's times because I can send it when I'm free and they can listen when they become free.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

And that's the long and the short of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

So it's similar to Slack.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

So you got a free tier.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

We really learned early on that a lot of people were using this personally at a professional level.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

Like I said, a freelancer talking to their clients or

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

a startup founder talking to investors, or even a coach or a mentor talking to their students.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

And that kind of like one-to-many aspect with one person who's doing the majority of the communication talking to a lot of people, we definitely allow you to do for free.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

And that enables things like nonprofits and communities to kind of run for free on Yak.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

Now, as soon as you want to upgrade to a team plan, you get things like our Slack integration, group messaging,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

better transcription insights.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

We actually pull out action items and to-dos from the transcription.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

All that stuff's on the paid plan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

And we've got standard annual and monthly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

We started out with three different plans and that was just confusing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

So we officially launched in 2019, but the app was actually built November of 2018 as kind of a free hackathon project.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

Put it out there and the reaction was really good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m

And so we decided to spin it off as its own venture-backed startup.