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Nishith Patek

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
115 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

But when you do want to sell to an enterprise, you have to be ready for that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

And we are ready for that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

We've got about 11 people full-time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

except seven.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

So there are four non-technical people and the rest are all engineers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

We've got a development center in India.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

It's a place called Indore.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

It's in central India.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

It's a smaller town, but it's a good town.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

And the reason why we chose Indore over, say, Bangalore is because it's a much lower cost of operations and the workforce is a lot more stable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

About 30% of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

I know because I have a lot of friends in Bangalore who are in the tech space and what they pay to a fresher is what we can get a person with five years or six years of experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

I'll tell you what, I think it is going to become a lot

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

more prevalent going forward with people working remotely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

Because see, earlier, what used to happen was the large, the moment you would hit a certain threshold, you would like to set up your own full dedicated office, you would be constrained by your 10 mile radius in which you hire people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

And you would always want to be close to where the founder is based.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

So that was one of the constraints.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

Now, I don't live in Indore and I don't care where my people work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

They could be working in Vietnam tomorrow or Ukraine, and I have no problems with that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He pays senior engineers $30k/yr, building new Employee Engagement SaaS

So we have kind of looked at it from a complete remote perspective as well.