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LV

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
590 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

I spend most of my time in sales calls, strategy, fundraising, that kind of stuff, whatever needs to be done.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

My other co-founder is one of my others is Todd.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

I don't know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

I know Todd because he's my best friend's dad.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

So I've known him for a while.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

And Todd is a unicorn in the sense that he's both a veteran CFO and a veteran CTO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

And a lot of these decisions that people make in their cloud stack are multi-stakeholder decisions where you're looking at both finance and engineering having a pretty serious role.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

And so he's able to harmonize the language between those two.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

And he's a pretty great founder himself, having taken multiple companies to 20, 30 million ARR himself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

Jason, my other co-founder, I actually worked with at my last company, Weave.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

He was our first non-technical hire, helped us get to a million ARR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

uh then became the head of product at a fintech called grow which is based in canada they had an exit to atb financial but jason um you know helped build some of the first public cloud projects at some of the major fis in canada and in in our experience here's a consistent pattern is we've all sold um you know apis of various sorts um so even at my last company weave i was selling

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

an API to the major CPG firms and health and fitness firms to help them with 3D customization as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

And Jason was selling FinTech APIs to the bank.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

So we understand both vendor and buyer pain points very well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

Well, fundraising through pivots is tough.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

You know, we've kept the same cap table since the very beginning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

We've done a tiny bit of cleanup for sure, but I would say this, we've just tried to find high value angels.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

That's been our focus until very recently where we did get the involvement of two firms, Voyager Capital and Wonder Ventures.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.

And YC Continuity also participated in our last round.