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Nathan Latka

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

We will see what Chanty does next.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

Hey folks, my guest today is Dmytro Okenev.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

He has bootstrapped Chanti from zero to three million bucks in ARR, trying hard to compete with MS Teams and Slack.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

Dmytro, are you ready to take us to the top?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

Yeah, I guess.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

A lot of people would say you're crazy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

Slack is huge.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

Microsoft Teams is huge.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

How are you going to bootstrap and compete?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

What would you say back to them?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

When you last came on in 2021, you'd said that you passed about a thousand customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

They were each paying about 120 bucks a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

So you were doing about 1.5 million in revenue then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

Where are you today?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

So, sorry, you have 2,400 paying customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

Um, 24,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

So you have, okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

So just to be clear, when you came on two years ago, you had a thousand customers and 1.5 million of revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Make $3m Building a Slack Clone with no money, experience, or sales team

You're saying now you have 24,000, so 24 times the amount of customers, but only two X, the amount of revenue.