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Nicolas Dessaigne

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
152 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

For us, it's more about like achieving the highest potential.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

I mean, the company has a high potential, it will be such a shame not to give it our best.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

And in our case, in our market for us meant raising money to be able to go faster.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

It's a lot around making sure we're delivering the right product to our customers and making them successful.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

And so as we scaled, we started to add customer success for the market deals, for example.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

But if I look back at the early days, our users are developers, really were implemented by developers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

And so we decided very early not to have any support team, for example, because we wanted to make sure everyone in the company was user-facing

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

and really felt the need and the pain of the customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

So support was done by engineers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

So our customers, when they had an issue, they would directly reach out to our engineers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

And that was an expectation we set from day one with the engineers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

Which means that the product got way better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

I think that it would have if we had a support team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

Actually, yes, you should.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

No, I hate the word pacing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

But no, I think that's very important to have engineers who really care about the product they build and about the customers they serve.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

You know, actually, it's such a satisfying feeling when your customers have an issue and you're able to solve and help them and receive that thanks, that appreciation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

like really heartfelt thanks from the customers, I think actually it's a good thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

It's all a matter of proportion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

You don't want to spend your days at doing that.