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Ross Andrews

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
136 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

And then once that's complete and we're confident everything is working 100%, we'll roll into our full subscription model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

So we've basically been coding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

So I have a co-founder.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

He's the technical founder.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

He's been coding for about seven months just to get to the platform to where it is today, which is in that beta phase.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

And then, like I said, we're going to do about a month or two of testing, just make sure all the bugs are squashed, any bugs that pop up, get some user feedback, make any fine-tuned performance changes, and then roll into that full launch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

There's actually four of us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

The two of us are the founders, and we have two other members who joined our team a little bit later on in the process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

So we're a four-person team right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

We're all under the age of 26.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

So a young, hungry team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

We all kind of have a diversity of backgrounds, both personally and professionally.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

So it's kind of cool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

We have kind of a unique dynamic, but we have an exciting team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

All four of us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

The other two are equity partners at this point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

We're bootstrapping.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

Like you said, your users want some of those pre-revenue companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

We are hard bootstrapping.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1133 How to slowly quit corporate, code your platform and land your first customer

To this point, all of us work other jobs as we're getting this company off the ground, just little side hustles to keep the lights on as we build Proximate.