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Max Israel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
166 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

So that was it, you know, eight years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

And today that's really, wait, sorry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

Founded the company 15 years ago, eight years ago, I realized I just didn't like what the company had become.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

No, essentially we just rebuilt the company, the culture and the technology from the ground up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

Yeah, it's a pivot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

We pivoted from, we're going to do what everybody else does, which is make surveys that are in essence,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

a web form where you're asking your customer, who's like the most valuable person, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

Your customers are employees of these two incredibly valuable groups of people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

You're asking your customer to give you feedback after, I don't know, buying a car, getting a mortgage, or going to see the doctor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

And you're asking them to fill out a form on the web.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

That makes no sense at all, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

We thought we could make that experience a lot richer, a lot more interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

And so we rebuilt and reinvented the company to sort of redefine our space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

You know, it really depends.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

We're B2B.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

So I guess that's the first thing is where, you know, we have clients in the world that, you know, spend $50,000 a year with us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

And we have clients that spend seven figures a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

No, probably a quarter million a year as an average client.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1428 Bootstrapped and $12m in ARR. My kinda CEO!

That's an average contract size is a couple hundred thousand dollars.