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Or Weiss

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
195 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

So with a product-led growth motion, your focus, and we were actually getting luckier than we expected, but in general,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

The best practice is to allow yourself the time to grow organically with the market and focus on capitalization and sales only later down the funnel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

A bit over two years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

It's more than just thinking time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

It's time to kind of adjust and learn the product marketing, but also allow time to allow things to grow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

I'll give you an example from another company, a successful company, Snyk, which I also happen to be a ambassador for, which is a cute kind of title.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

Snyk took about a bit over two years to get to a million ARR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

which is considered slow if you think classic enterprise slaves.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

But two years later, they were already a multi-billion dollar company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

So the hockey stick there is very steep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

So we're now 13, actually 14.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

And we'll grow to around 16 immediately.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

And that's what I'm kind of calling cruising altitude.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

I'll give you something that's not exactly a business book, but I use a lot of metaphors from it for business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

And it's my favorite book in general, The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

It's a book that basically explains what life is and how it's geared to move forward and what evolution is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

And I constantly find equivalencies in both business and software development.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

I am an avid admirer of the Collison brothers at Running Stripe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

It's just astounding to see the behemoth that they were able to build.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time

Online tool to build permit, you say?