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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 no one, no one, and I say that with a lot of confidence, no one can beat us on customer support.

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

So as much as a soft replay, one thing where we just, you know, we are better than anyone else out there is, you know, how great our customer support is versus anyone else out there.

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

That's one.

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

Then again, you know, when they were researching who's the most, you know, trusted player, most, you know, the player with a lot of great reviews.

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

And then again, you know, player with a bit of a, you know, who can help you run an event that is highly memorable.

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

We came out there at the top, right?

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

So we were the one who got a lot of that influx of new business.

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

We, in fact, had to turn away tons of business.

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

You know, this 30 million could have easily been 60 million have I been not caring about customer support.

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

In many cases, we let the customers just, you know, we have to apologize to them that, you know, the kind of support that we aim to provide.

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

Unfortunately, we feel that we may not be the right vendor exactly at that peak when we got tons of customers here.

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

Yeah, I think, see, within the events industry, what happens is that anytime a customer is coming to any vendor, including us, I think they know that they're going to work for weeks, if not months, for that one day.

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

That one day, that one day for a virtual event has to go just perfectly well.

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

And they would always go ahead and do their research.

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

So they want that social proof.

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

So they will see G2.

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

They will ask us, can you give us social proof?

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

They will ask us for references.

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

And then once they are done doing a virtual event with vFairs, they know how much those reviews have helped them.

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

So again, just by default, they go out there and post some of those reviews.