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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 when we started with it,

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

We said, okay, what do we do?

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

What product do we do?

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

And it was very hard to go back to raise money when I had just been rolled over by a bus, right?

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

And so I told Nalina, we're just going to pick a small problem and make money.

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

That's what we're going to do.

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

And so we were talking to some of these people who had used our smart product.

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

And as I mentioned, we'd go into emails, contacts, and calendar.

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

And...

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

One of these customers who are using it for calendars, they have this problem that when my SDRs book a meeting for an AE, it takes them seven minutes because they have to go and look in the spreadsheet who's next in the round robin, then find the calendar, create the invites, send the invite.

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

By the time they send the invite, the prospect is gone and they cheat, they don't do the right guy.

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

Can you automate that process?

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

And true story, my wife Alina said, I didn't quit my job to do this shitty little product.

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

And I said, you did, because we need to make money, and we have a product that people want to buy.

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

Well, yeah, we waited.

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

So I went back to the company.

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

The company is called Five Star, that woman who asked us to do this.

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

She said, would you prepay for it?

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

And she said, yes, I would prepay.

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

I'm sure she would have paid much more, but we were so desperate.