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Mitch Russo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
222 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

We had a great plan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

We shot a video to get everybody pumped up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

But at the end of the day, it didn't work out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

The family had other intentions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

And so I felt like I was not going to be synergistic with the family's intentions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

So I resigned in 2012.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

I'm starting another software company, of course.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

I mean, come on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

I did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

I wrote The Invisible Organization, which is a book about how companies go virtual.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

How many sales?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

We sold about 5,000 copies, which for a business book isn't too bad.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

Self-published or?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

Self-published on Amazon.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

Yep, it became an Amazon number one bestseller, which is not a big deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

But anyway, so a year ago I had this idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

I said, you know what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

Everybody who's ever bought a training program in the universe

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

92% of those people have never finished that training program or never got the benefit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
930 How a $10m Software Guy Ends up In Furniture Business and Tony Robbins

How do we fix that?