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Mark Abbott

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
698 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

These are the right disciplines.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

They'd say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

They'd smile, fuck me, is the expression, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

And I got tired of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

I'm like, there's got to be a better way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

I'm going to write a book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

I'm going to create software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

It's going to be easy and obvious.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

And that was 2005, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

So it's a long road, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

So I was this coach because EOS had this book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

It was pretty popular.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

There were 35 coaches.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

They were growing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

I'm like, I'll join the community if they're not going to do the software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

They said, software's too tough.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

We're not going to do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

and that's the story.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

So I still to this day have a fractional head of marketing, coach support, we're full-time now, pretty full-time actually, we're not totally full-time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him

Data is fractional, engineering's fractional, finance is fractional, talent, all fractional people.