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Nicholas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1093 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

And I kept telling her, when you have this kind of talent, you don't work for people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

You make money to yourself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

And I kept trying to convince her.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

And finally, in late 2015, she agreed and we started a company, and that's Chili Piper.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

It's a good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

No, she has slightly less than me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

I thought it was fair that... So I'm going to tell the full story of the company, because it didn't quite happen that way, since we have time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

I tried to convince her in 2013 to do a company and she didn't want to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

So I did it on my own and I started a company to go after a problem that I had.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

I was helping a friend running a sales team and my reps refused to update Salesforce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

And I said, look, you're not going to get your commission if you don't update Salesforce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

I said, look, we have other things to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

Yeah, right, exactly, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

So I thought, you know, I'm going to do a smart system that goes into the sales reps' email contact calendar, find the information, put it in Salesforce, and everybody's happy, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

They don't have to do anything, and my system does it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

So I start that company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

I start building the system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

Then I find that there's a company in Israel called Implicit that's doing the same thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

And I'm thinking, well, that happens, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina

Good ideas happen at the same time.