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Neil Breaux

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
241 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

That's funny.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

It's actually awesome.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

You got me on my soapbox.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

Carrier, a big company that does all the HVAC for commercial units, plus also cargo ship cooling.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

Unbeknownst to many people, the cargo ship cooling industry is huge on transporting goods around the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

Our software, Nathan, allows for the uptime of those ships by which with all the supply chain constraints, you then know that the cooler is actually working.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

A huge complex piece of equipment used by ServiceMax by the technicians to figure out what ships actually can actually transport the foods that we all need, particularly in this very trying time that the world is in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

So really great stuff and an honor to be the CEO of the company, given the importance of the software and what it does for our customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

They continue to be an investor in our company, a minority investor, but GE, as you probably followed, went through a lot of stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

They continue to go through a lot of stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

Three, four CEOs went through that gamut during that timeframe and they were divesting a significant portion of their company to generate and gather cash and focus back into their niche of what actually created GE, what was it, 100, 150 years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

ServiceMax was a very tip of the spear for them to be a digital software company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

And as we've seen, they've reverted back to their industrial roots.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

Having a software company of our scale, of our expertise, made sense to be at another company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

And that's why they engaged with our current owners to figure out

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

How can they get cash on their balance sheet and also let us do the things that we are currently doing?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

Quite frankly, we're a big provider of many GE kind of business units.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

Their ultimate utilization of our software for their field techs as well, Nathan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

So a real win-win at the time and a great deal struck by our investors, quite frankly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ServiceMax Breaks $150m ARR, Kills 2021 SPAC, Growing 20-35% This Year Helping 400 Customers Schedule Technicians to do Physical Repairs

Salesforce Ventures came into the business as well, I think two and a half years ago.