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Luke Swanick

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
235 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

No, so it was my co-founders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

So Bryn, Neil and John.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

So Bryn and I had known each other for a decade.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

He was a member of Canada's national swim team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

And then we met John and Neil actually at our old university.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

And they were just starting to really get into programming.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

John had his own dev shop and Neil was just starting to code.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

And they ended up being horses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

And that was pretty evident pretty quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

And we started building this thing out together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

So the four of us have lived together in random combinations, you know, several times over the last three years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

Um, but we got to know each other through the university campus and started building it together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

Well, it was a slow boil to be honest, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

Like it was a project.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

How do we build something that we can actually get people to use and to want to use?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

And it started with a ton of great feedback from NPOs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

Yeah, based upon some of the work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

I wasn't working on it with my dad.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

I was just at my dad's place when I started this side gig by myself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue

And so all four of us were kind of out there hitting the pavement, talking to people, trying to get a sense of what was going on.