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Max Altschuler

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
217 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

Um, and then if I can follow along, great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

Most of the times it gets too expensive for me, but, um, you know, when I'm getting in for three to six, like many times I'm looking at it and saying, okay, well,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

this, this company has a great chance to, to be something big, but like at the very, like worst case scenario sell for, you know, 50 or 60 or 150, you know, and I'm still making pretty good money back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

One company sold to a spider book sold to demand base.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

Um, but that was an advisory, not a, uh, not a investment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

It's less about using the Sales Hacker Network and more about using my subject matter expertise, my individual network as Max Autschler with VCs and potential customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

I try and keep the two things separate, to be quite honest with you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

I set very...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

very good expectations, um, defined expectations early on of what I will and will not do for companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

And, you know, I don't use my sort of influence or network for sales hacker in my personal investments.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

That's great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

Other ones, another one I'm really excited about is Virgil Security, but that's not in the sales space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

But another SaaS company, they're trying to do basically the Twilio model for security.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

So, you know, I'm not trying to invest in

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

sales or marketing companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

I'm trying to invest in B2B companies that I can help sell and market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

Yeah, and I don't want to start investing in my vendors and then being political and getting in that whole mess.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer

That's not really the point.