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Nick Girard

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
267 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

And then because we were working with other creators, other community builders, other brands, they started being like, hey, can we use those tools that you're building?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

Because we're doing exactly the same thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

And so it kind of just grew from there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

And so everything that we have built has come from the mouths of our paying customers from day one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

I'm not going to get into all the details.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

I'll say that we have hundreds of paying customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

We have thousands of people on our waitlist.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

We're keeping a waitlist.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

and starting to open it up to the world in Q1 next year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

It's pretty evenly split, actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

I would say we have probably three distinct cohorts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

We have

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

individual creators and influencers who I would actually define separately.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

I think influencers probably make most of their money from brand partnerships and sponsored posts and sponsored content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

Creators are people who are directly monetizing their audience, selling subscriptions, selling content, tips, and that kind of thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

So we have those individual creators.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

They're very well suited to our $5 a month tier.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

Then we have what I would call community builders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

They may be people with a business objective.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation

Maybe they have a shop or something.