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Philip Soffer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
180 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

So I think about those folks differently than I think about salespeople or marketing people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

For sure it is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

Yeah, for sure it is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

But it's just, it is a different kind of spend than the sales and marketing spend.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

Not that I want to talk about.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

I mean, I'm like, I'm not out raising capital for VCs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

Yeah, I mean, I think,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

We have historically spent not as much as we might on marketing, specifically on getting our name out there, brand recognition kinds of things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

If we were marketing aggressively to what I call the enterprise companies, that is companies that are really big that rely, for example, on analyst reports and so on, we're not

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

We're not in that world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

I couldn't answer that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

Um, but it, I mean, it obviously like everybody's got their price.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

I think it's a board-level decision, obviously, to sell the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

So I'm going to go a little rogue on this one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

I think business books as a genre are not my favorite genre, so I don't read too many of them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

But I read books about business, especially...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

Sort of an interesting story.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

So let me give you a few that I've read recently and then one that's not about business that I always... Yeah, give it to me.