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Mariano Suarez-Battan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
168 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

I mean, they connected us with IBM, and IBM became our biggest client.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

They also connected with some folks at Steelcase, as I said, some folks in Stanford, and into it as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

So it was a good experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

Yeah, good, I mean, connector, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

Also a good way to bring in some of their DNA into our product organization, how they work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

And in a way, we realized that instead of going after the IDOs of the world as our clients, we pivoted to who we were going to be aiming for, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

Large firms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

Their clients, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

So clients of IDEO that wanted to work like IDEO ended up being the sweet spot for a go-to-market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

That's the pricing plan for the folks that want to buy online, which is, again, a huge number of people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

But in terms of our revenue, it's not, I mean, the big disproportion, I'd say probably one-fourth of our revenue comes from online.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

The rest come from enterprise deals, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

So the simplicity is nice because, again, we โ€“

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

Most of our enterprise deals start with some sort of free trial, of course, and then people in a work group that start to use it, and then they like it, and then they expand it to other folks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

SaaS business model, I mean, the things like how we charge.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

So it's a subscription.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

Most of the people pay us annually, though, even though we have the monthly option, and pay us via contracts and via invoices and via large contracts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

We also...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

integrate our systems to their systems and more, I mean, more enterprise ready level of service that is not available to buy online.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
738: Is He The Future of Design Collaboartion? 1200 Customers and $3m in Revenues Say Yes!

So right now, we have 45,000 monthly active users.