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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

And that way we know, okay, that's a mainstay.

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

That's going to stay on the pricing page because that was a reason someone upgraded.

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

If nobody ever upgrades for some specific reason, just put it on the free plan because clearly that's not a reason to upgrade.

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

And so a lot of what we're doing is really just experimentation.

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

I love seeing more users in the platform and

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

So we're not forcing paid plans right now because it's really all about iterating on product feedback.

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

This is a very new way of working.

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

We're asking people to not get instant gratification.

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

Don't hop on a call.

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

Don't get that answer right away.

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

Send it as a yak message and somebody will reply in 15-20 minutes.

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

That breaks a lot of norms of the way people think about collaboration in a company.

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

And that means we have to be very careful about saying, hey, try this.

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

It's different.

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

It's a weird way of working, but I promise it's more productive.

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

And we really want to get that feedback loop.

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

And that's ultimately more important to us right now, especially as a venture backed company versus a bootstrapped company.

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

If this was fully bootstrapped and we had to build out a huge team, there'd be no other money coming into the company.

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

We would have to be forcing a lot of paid upgrades.

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

Right now, though, because of the fact that we have investors,