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Luke Beatty

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
188 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

My, my background has been almost exclusively in, in, in media and in ads and, and content on the big side running, you know, brands like tech crunch to Yahoo brands, like Yahoo autos and, you know, big consumer facing media brands.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

And so,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

the, the, we know, which is, which is, which is a very, very difficult business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

So the prospect of working on a SAS business that I felt like had predictable revenue, predictable revenue, or just what I like to call revenue or revenue at all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

So that's, uh, that's been how that's, how that's worked.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

So it's been good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

What's your team size today?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

We have 25 people, mostly, mostly in Colorado, except for like outside sales folks in, in region.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

You know, it really depends on the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

I think, you know, for a big, big enterprise customer like JetBlue or a, you know, one of the sort of bigger underarm or kind of some of our bigger, huge accounts that we have, you know, we will pay, you know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

like most SaaS companies, we try to have a 12-month payback.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

So we're willing to invest 12 months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

It kind of really depends on the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

We also have a lighter product that isn't necessarily for smaller businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

In fact, a lot of our biggest businesses like

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

um, you know, like a Slack or something, they, they don't have our biggest, our biggest offering.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

Um, so it's really not about that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

It's more about use case, uh, as opposed to company size.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

So those guys, um,