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Nathan Latka

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223769 total appearances

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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

Yeah.

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

Like you've bought the whole company, like M&A, you've purchased other companies?

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

Ah, got it.

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

How do you define an enterprise client?

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

they came to us so i think how do you define an enterprise client is it a team size is it a revenue number yeah yeah yeah i mean like it's it's more than 2500 people working there more than 2500 uh work there and will they pay for seats for all 2500 on shanty that's great so can i ask you what is your largest customer pay you per year don't name the customer but what's the largest customer pay you so they pay around 300k okay wow that's pretty good yeah that's really good yeah

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

So what's it take for you to go sign up 10 more of those?

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

So you're a sole founder, right?

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

In 2021, you told me you owned 80% and employee option pool was 20%.

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

And now you're looking for sort of a sales co-founder.

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

Yeah.

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

What would you be willing, if you found just an absolute rock star in terms of a sales co-founder, what amount of equity would you be willing to give them or let them earn on a vesting schedule?

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

One five?

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

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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

How'd you get to that number out of curiosity?

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

How else are you acquiring customers besides affiliates and value-added resellers?

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

Your best performing piece of content based off my research is a blog you wrote on productivity quotes, which I believe you get between 400 and 500 clicks per month to that page.

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

You've optimized that page pretty aggressively, which I love with sort of opt-ins going down the page.

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

How did you realize that productivity quotes could be a big sort of success for you?

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

How did you know to optimize for that keyword?

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

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