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Paul Tashima

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
172 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

And today, everyone has more connections than ever before.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

We sell it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

So if you're a sales professional, head of sales, and you want your team to get access to target accounts through the network, you buy a nudge per seat for every sales user in the organization and every other person you want to see their network.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

And then two, we plug in the analytics into CRM so that if you want to track how a deal is progressing and whether the salesperson is growing the right relationships with the right people, you can see that right in CRM.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

And so that's how we make money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

We charge heads of sales to put this tool in place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

You know, our straight down the middle product is $30 per user per month, US.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

Okay, got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

I got my Oracle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

I stayed on for a year to help with the transition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

And in October 2013, I took two months off.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

And then my co-founder, Steve Woods, and I started Nudge.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

Is that a sexy way to say you had to stay at Oracle for a year to get by the earn out?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

There was no revesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

We owned all our shares.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

We could have walked away on day one after the acquisition was confirmed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

So Steve Woods was a co-founder at Eloqua as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1143 Eloqua Founders Launch New Relationship Tool, $600k ARR first 5 Months, $7m Raised

So we've been working together for almost 18 years now.