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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

So, you know, I find it, and this is where there's this big, in addition,

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

These people don't churn, logo churn, like other mid-market products because if the person fails, and we really want to think about this in this fashion, if this person's business fails, they're still a person.

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

They're still a side gig.

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

It's not like they became extinct or they went off of the

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

the face of the planet.

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

So we really want to keep them or future plans have got like, why isn't there just a reboot button where they just hit reboot, they rename their entity, they rename maybe their DBAs, they redo, amend their formation, and then they restart again.

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

you know, change their website up, but they don't have to go through this process again, but they can still keep their, their, a new idea they can kick off.

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

And I think this is really the, the, for us is to treat them more like as the world moves this way is everyone should have one of these aside gig.

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

And, you know, we want to failure as part of these businesses to,

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

But it doesn't have to be the fact that you have to reinvest in a new idea.

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

We want to lower that friction initially and lower it so that you can maybe have two, three, four, five gigs.

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

I'd rather see our customers paying us $1,000 a month and have five different companies.

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

Because that makes more sense than having a single company until it's got 10, 12, 20 employees.

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

Then they could move into that range.

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

But when they get up and running, they're going to be sensitive to pricing.

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

Yeah.

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

And that was led by Graycroft.

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

We don't need to raise money right now.

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

we will be profitable next fall.

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

Got it.