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Roy Raanani

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
193 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

I mean, the company is actually only two and a half years old.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

We moved very quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

I mean, that would be, I'm exaggerating, I'm exaggerating, I'm exaggerating a little bit for all intents and purposes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

It was, yeah, it was, it was this idea of how quickly, you know, there, there are a lot of companies that scale inefficiently.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

And it's, and it's almost like a badge of honor to see how quickly can you add people, how quickly can you scale?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

And the way that we approached it was, you know, what are the questions that we want to answer before we start scaling heavily?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

And one of them, for example, was, you know, you talked about customer acquisition cost.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

Well, releasing a self-serve product for an individual account executive is something that nobody else in the space has done.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

And we realized that because we had built a product that was designed for salespeople and to be valuable out of the box for them, we thought, what if we just put that out there and we see how it's doing?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

And it ends up performing very well and gets us into some incredible accounts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

So these are things that we said, you know,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

What would what would we be really disappointed by if we didn't experiment with them before deciding to go to market heavily?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

You know what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

I left.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

I actually I had one job in between venture capital and chorus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

So, you know, the reason I left Innovation Endeavors was simply because

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

It felt disingenuous for me to be advising these incredible entrepreneurs if I'd never started a business myself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

I was I was in my late 20s.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

So I just finished business school.