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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...

But for the last two years, you haven't been able to buy that product.

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

Got it.

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

We've retained those customers.

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

Um, I don't want to see right now.

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

Well, we, we will do, we will double in revenue every, like we have every year since we started.

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

That's the revenue number.

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

I'll tell you.

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

Um, my favorite business book, my favorite business book right now, uh, which I just read about a month and a half ago.

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

Um,

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

is, um, Zingerman's, which is a deli in, um, in, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which is a very famous deli.

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

And if you haven't been there, you should check it out.

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

It's kind of got a cult following in a college town and they wrote a customer service book that is really amazing.

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

It's a very quick short read and it is, it details how a bricks and mortar business has a very unconventional, um,

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

customer service model.

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

And I'll say that the sort of the punchline for the book for me is that if you go into customer service with an expectation that it's like fair, you're, you're screwed, right?

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

The way you have to work it is this is an unfair thing.

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

I'm going to be giving way more than I'm getting.

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

People are going to be unreasonable.

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

They're

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

and you need to meet those.