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Russ Heddleston

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
257 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

When we look at our legacy business around inbound and self-serve, sometimes companies get that right and you just take off at an incredible rate and you're like, wow, this is super exciting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

You've got to be growing at 20% a month with that type of number for that to be like, we've made it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

Wait, what kind of number?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

The self-serve stuff?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

Just the self-serve inbound.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

Yeah, because that one's hard to influence.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

What's exciting about outbound is that you control the destiny of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

And so what was exciting for me is when we got to the point where we can sell $50,000 a year deals, and we can do that in a minimum amount of time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

And then it's really just a function of scaling up your sales team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

The trick is not to do that too early.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

And the trick is to understand specifically what's going on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

into that being successful and asking the question, can that scale?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

And so that's why I say in terms of new revenue that we make, having that be 80-20 is pretty exciting for me, especially in terms of building out our sales team this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

And they really are two separate businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

So when you ask questions about the mix of the two, it's not even something I pay a whole lot of attention to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

There are more cohorts than just that, but at a rough one, yeah, I get excited about the larger teams that are using us for slightly different reasons than the people who are using us for their fundraising or for other individual uses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

Yeah, so we haven't lost a team of greater than 10 salespeople from Docsend that's just churned.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

Yeah, so that's really exciting to me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

Over your history, your life.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 581: DocSend $11M Raised, 2800+ Company Customers, 10,000+ Seats Because Links > Attachments For Docs with CEO Russ Heddleston

Yeah, over our history, our life.