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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

Yeah, and that's a trend that's continuing to grow, you know, go every month since then.

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

And we made a big bet back then.

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

That's when we decided to go away from doing a direct sales model where we have inside salespeople calling businesses to make a big bet on content marketing and organic traffic.

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

And it's paid off, and it's good because otherwise we wouldn't be here.

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

I mean, sure, in terms of our salaries, but it's really what we do.

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

I mean, we also have a network of freelancers, but it doesn't cost you money in the sense that a salesperson costs you money or in the sense that SEM costs you money because those are things that you have to spend money on every time you do them, right?

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

Versus ranking very well for high value terms.

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

Uh, sure.

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

I mean, we went fully remote.

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

So, um, the company is now based in, uh, in Austin, Texas.

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

I live here in Austin.

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

Uh, we have people all over the country and over the world.

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

Uh, so the company, we, we don't have an office in San Francisco anymore.

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

That's, uh, that's definitely a big, uh, what was that costing you?

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

You know what?

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

It was costing us more than we thought.

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

So it was about $6,000 a month in rent, but then associated expenses with that.

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

And, you know, little things that start to add up like coffee and lunches and things like that.

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

It was probably another three, $4,000.

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

Interesting.