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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!

And it's almost dazzling to look at the world and see that.

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

No, no.

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

I mean, look, in any B2B sales cycle, you're going to suffer some attrition and we try and keep that at or below 10% because companies... Are you at that now though?

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

Yeah, yeah.

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

But that's pretty typical in our industry.

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

Companies fall off for a variety of reasons and most of that are things that are outside of your control.

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

But what's interesting to me are the quality of companies that we...

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

have been adding the quality of companies that we have in our pipeline and things like that.

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

So I think if you and I were to talk a year from now, we'd continue to have that growth number of kind of, you know, 100% is pretty aggressive.

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

If we can consistently hit 50% growth, I think that's about it.

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

I actually don't know the answer to that.

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

We do, but a lot of that has relied on new features that we've added to our technology that are just now coming on.

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

So that's become an important part of our strategy for the future, but it hasn't been in the past.

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

So we're under about 40 people, but really I only have two salespeople, one in the US, one in Europe, and I pitch in with that.

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

So all of the things that we are talking about now come from a very small number of outside sales.

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

Yeah, we've got designers and we've got developers.

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

That's a question I ask myself every day, and I'd be giving myself more credit than it's probably due if I told you I completely engineered that.

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

I haven't.

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

We've really, I'm trying to find a graceful way of saying floundered around in terms of marketing.

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

We went through that period of our evolution where we did nothing, and then we went through a period of our evolution where we focused on AdWords and an inbound marketing strategy.