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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

you have to remove friction everywhere.

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

So the path for somebody to get into that product and experience that value has to be the fastest, the shortest, the smoothest.

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

And so no friction is something that is at the core of what we do.

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

We repeat it all the time because

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

constant process of looking at any points of friction and removing it this is the website in when we launched in 2014 and we got lucky it was written up in hacker news and some other places and we had over 20,000 people that experienced our builder in 2014 the first weekend you would select one of those you know very simple kind of ugly email templates and get into the pool tool right away

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

Of course, we redesigned it.

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

But look, there's a button that says start designing there.

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

So in one click, you would get into the tool.

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

We redesigned it again, of course.

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

And this is how it looks today.

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

So eight years later, you can still, with two clicks, be into the product.

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

We don't ask you for anything.

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

No email, no sign up, nothing.

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

And this has been very core in the way we've acquired customers, discreet words of mouth, of course, et cetera, et cetera.

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

So no friction is one operating principle that we insist with everybody at Bee all the time.

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

Another one is always us first, which means if we can be a user of our own product for something that we're talking about, we absolutely need to be a user of our product, a heavy user of the product.

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

And you might say, well, this sounds like obvious.

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

Well, I've been around for long enough and I can tell you that it's actually not.

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

All the time in our own companies, we cheat.

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

And we may not use our own product to do something.