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Prasanna

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
391 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

He is not going to do this use case on a daily basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

But when it is adjusted to another HR manager or a HR person, they have to live in a tool like this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

So when they found a tool like this, the few minutes that they were able to save for each of the time they sent, and when that got added up in the entire day, that was transformational for them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

The code did not change.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

It's just the persona changed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

And where they were struggling to sell for $1,000 a year, here it became very, very easy for them to sell it at $6,000 a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

And that brings me to my next point, which is choose your geography very carefully.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

Here, I have to tell you my experience of working with Intuit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

I was the head of product for QuickBooks outside of the US market, which is India, Malaysia, and Singapore.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

And we spent a lot of time in these markets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

And one thing we realized, it is very, very hard to sell software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

And I was talking to Greg about this during lunch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

Very, very hard to sell software in a market like India.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

And initially I thought, you know, it is maybe because software is an experience product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

It is an intangible product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

You don't get to touch and feel it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

And I thought, like, you know, in a low trust environment, low trust society, if people can't touch and feel it, then maybe it's very hard to sell a product like this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

But then, like, you know, something else happened.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

And I saw that, you know, people were able to sell religion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR

were able to sell devotion, devotional songs.