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Phil Reynolds

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
221 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

I wanted to go solve that now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

And so DevStrike is really, in many ways, just me scratching my own itch of the single biggest annoyance I had to deal with running and growing my previous company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

Yeah, so what we're doing is we're doing strategic portfolio management for Agile teams.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

And what that really means is what makes it different from, I know you've had Zeb on before with ClickUp and ClickUp's an amazing product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

Monday's an amazing product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

They're all amazing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

They're all solving a different problem than we are.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

They're solving sort of like project-based work where I come in and I click things off a task list.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

What we're really trying to solve is I have these complex overlays on these roadmaps, and I have to assign work to teams.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

I have one team, but the one team is accepting work for many different work streams, and I have to report out on all those different work streams independently to different stakeholders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

So that's what we're doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

We're building a project management tool that solves that particular problem

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

for teams who are trying to make multiple stakeholders happy in multiple different work streams.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

Typically, it's going to be three.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

It's going to be the executive at the company who says, hey, what are we doing here?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

It's going to be the board who says, what is my ROI on the investment that I gave you?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

And it's going to be some number of enterprise customers who say, hey, when's my project going to be live?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

When am I going to be able to implement this system?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he closed $3.3m Seed (sold 25%) for Agile Management Tool Last Week

That makes a lot of sense.