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Prune Shada

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
236 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

were earlier in terms of the rigors of planning, the rigors of recruitment, the rigors of just investments that go into sales and marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

And that's been the story.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

If you ask me last one year, we've gone from 20, 30 people combined in sales and marketing to maybe 60, 70 people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

That's been a bulk of my life.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

Just in sales and marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

Sales and marketing has actually become...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

It's US, it's Canada, it's UK, it's Australia.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

First of all, there are four GEOs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

Then Chief Revenue Officer joined us around middle of the year last year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

Double the number of AEs, double the number of SDRs, lots of folks in various aspects of demand gen and partnership management.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

All of that went through a sea change.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

That's the big change.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

And every employee, whether they have been a long-time member or the ones that came in last year or two, they clearly see that when they see the numbers actually look very different.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

Total team size is actually, we are pushing 275 maybe at this point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

And with some recs open, we'll definitely cross 300 before the end of the year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

I think that's the model that I would like to pursue going forward.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

These can get actually expensive at times and the investors don't actually like the 50-50 model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

I was sharing with you there that as an operator who stayed in this for a fair amount of time, if you're not a five-year run kind of a business, and by the way, we are an evergreen business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

And this is a key difference.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor

Some pursuits are just going to be evergreen.