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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

But it wasn't going to be a Facebook size in terms of user count.

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

We just aren't consumer.

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

Everyone is using DocSend for a business application.

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

But what happened in that year is that we took a hard look at everyone using DocSend.

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

For instance, people use it in fundraising all the 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

If you ask any venture capitalists about DocSend, they'll be like, yes, I get all DocSend links now.

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 that was really nice for us.

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

Unfortunately, that's not a great business to be in.

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 we looked at some of the other cohorts of users that we had.

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

It's like one time, right?

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, exactly.

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

After a few months, they successfully raise and they're gone or it didn't work, which is unfortunately a transaction fee on 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

Right.

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

Right.

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.

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

This would be great.

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

We actually did get approached by a hedge fund about, about buying the company and that would have been awful for everyone, but I thought 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

It's flattering in a way, I guess, that they're like, we've seen so many of your links that we would like access to your data.

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 like, no, security and privacy are obviously paramount to us.

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

But in any case, that wasn't a great use case.