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Pablo Fuentes

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
207 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

I pay myself as little as I possibly can to be able to pay back student loans and have, you know, a non-lavish, okay, life.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Uh, somewhere between those two.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

On the upper range of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

But, uh, it's, uh, you know, obviously moving from San Francisco to Austin helps now too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Uh, and, uh, but yeah, I mean, it's, it's always been about how little can we pay ourselves, uh, while, uh, not going into deep depression and so we can have as many employees and as many people being effective for the business as possible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Awesome.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Do you know what it's called?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Go ahead.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Uh, it's not necessarily a business book, but it's called the art of learning by Josh Waitzkin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Uh, Josh Waitzkin said the kid, I don't know if you ever saw the movie, uh, searching for Bobby Fisher.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Uh, and he's a child chess prodigy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

And he then also went on to become a world champion in, uh, in push hands Tai Chi.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

And then he became a Brazilian jujitsu black belt.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

And he talks about essentially what it's like to learn and how to become a good student, which I found is pretty much the only skill that matters.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Um, I mean, I think Richard Branson is really admirable and part of what he does really well is he, um, he's, he's definitely somebody who makes his life in, in living and having a full life and a part of running his business successfully.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

So, uh, he's probably, you know, less, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Number three, what's your favorite online tool like FreshBooks?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

Yeah, this is kind of a lame answer, but like what I use the most, I use every day is LinkedIn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com

I just use it a lot to generate different opportunities to cross-reference people, to hire people, to find opportunities.