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Mohamed Younis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
161 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

So we have far more depth in terms of feature set.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

versus anyone else.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

So when a customer is coming to us, they get far more depth in terms of feature sets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

If they're doing a trade show, they will have the ability to showcase their products, sell their products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

If they're doing a job fair, they can pull up their jobs, RSS feed, they can have candidates apply for jobs and so forth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

So when it comes to that depth of feature set, we also have that versus a lot of other players out there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

Roughly close to 1250 plus active paying customers at this point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

I remember telling you that number and I was like, no, I, gosh, I wish like I really hit that number, but yeah, I was hoping to hit 3 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

Then we hit 30 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

So that's what happened.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

It was close to 2.4 to 2.8 million dollars.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

See, there are two things, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

First of all, I think prior to COVID, you have to be a very forward-looking organization to try out virtual events.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

So you have to be one of those Fortune 500, Fortune 2000 companies in order to do something unique.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

Now with COVID,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

What has happened is that everyone is forced to learn about virtual events, to do virtual events.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

And when they went out there trying to look for a platform, we were one of the most trusted platform out there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

So if you go on G2, again, with all respect to all the other people who have raised tons of money, you will see us as number one when it comes to the highest rated platform.