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Ross Berdorf

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
276 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

We're very much into contractors and outsourcing, so we have

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

both on the customer service side and on the engineering side, we have some big outsource development team plus internal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

So we got a pretty good, pretty good crew.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

It's a big service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

It's a big service segment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

So we have big service segment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

And that's a lot of that is outsourced.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

And, you know, a big part of what we do is like

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

Zappos, Tony Hsieh, his fund was in our early round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

A big part of what we do is when people come in through formation, they can get a hold of us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

This is what everyone misses, I believe, in the industry right now is more and more people want to be able to get a hold of someone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

I cannot tell you how thrilled our customers were with being able to email us, call us, chat with us, and that takes a lot of service people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

We are a SaaS-based margin business, so I don't want you to get the impression that we don't have SaaS margins.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

The point is, though, that people want to get a hold of people, and we still do formations, which is largely done by hand, and you've got to get back and forth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

People need hand-holding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

It's a scary thing when you start up a business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

We are in that range, yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

Well, I mean, I think on all of these, I mean, you hit on it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

These businesses are, once you get the unit economics worked out, which we have, then it really all becomes, you know, how do you get LTV expansion?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months

So, I mean, this is the...