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Matt Ford

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
604 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

And, um, the, the process of putting on a concert is this extremely detail oriented.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

So something like Salesforce or HubSpot just doesn't work all that well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

Prism was purpose built to map out the, uh, the way that someone actually puts on a live event.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

And that's from, from contracting all the way through settlement and counting up ticket sales and, and figuring out how much, how much you made, how much you're paying the artists and then, you know, having all the financial tools to, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

to make sense of your books over a quarter, over a year, or whatever it might be.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

Outside of financial tools, it also has a lot of time-saving automation built into it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

So the people who are in charge of running the venue log into there to keep track of tasks, and the people who are marketing the event use Prism as a central place to store information.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

So it's really just one place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

for the concert, uh, for the concert business to kind of, to kind of work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

So, um, that's a great question there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

Um, there's the, the, the answer is we're fully focused on optimizing for when the industry kind of, you know, Phoenix's or whatever emerges from this time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

Um, you know, our,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

I'm running through scenarios of, okay, if it happens in quarter three, if it happens in quarter four, it happens in quarter one of next year, making sure that we have momentum for when that happens and not going away on the other side to make sense of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

So once again, our hypothesis is that there is an industry to serve on the other side of this and fully optimizing and keeping momentum for that when that happens.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

And during this time, we're taking a lot of,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

we're taking advantage of the downtime to really improve the products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

And a lot of our customers are tightening the belt and figuring out ways that they can do more with less and be more efficient.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

So we're using this time to implement parts of Prism that they haven't been able to implement because they've just been moving too fast.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1716 $60k/mo Live Event SaaS Company Virus Survival Plans

So the day-to-day is relatively normal.