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Massimo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
263 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

So by law, actually, you do have to have interest rates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

So I think it was 1%, something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

So it was a special internal loan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

Back then, the job to be done was a bunch of people that use applications to send an email, but the visual builder in that application sucks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

Don't think necessarily marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

It could be a billing system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

It could be an HR system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

We have a bunch of people in HR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

So when they send an email, do they have a visual builder in the HR tool or does it suck?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

If it sucks, they're going to look for something else because marketing is never going to help them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

They're at the bottom of the priority list.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

So that's why Bee was launched in 2014 at BeeFree.io.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

So people that would come, okay, I can visually build this thing and then I'll grab the HTML and put it into my HR system or whatever.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

So that was the initial playbook.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

And then software companies said, hey, let me embed that thing into my software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

And after eight years, the business is still pretty much split in half.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

So half of the ARR is from software companies that pay us because they embedded our visual builder.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

And then there's the other half.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

You know, it gets complicated when you're already public.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats

And so it's, first of all, I'm not the expert on this stuff, but it gets more complicated to say, okay, I'm gonna take this piece of the already publicly traded company, and then I need to spin it off