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Ry Walker

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
539 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

So it's sort of a cross between a services company and a software company at the moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

And so we basically offer access to our team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

And our technology for one flat price, you know, six grand a month, if you want it to run on in our shared cloud or 10 grand a month, if you want us to put up a private instance of the platform so that your data, so that your work is all separated from other companies, companies, healthcare companies might choose.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

So we just have our first few, we call it, you know, private cloud addition customers are just going live now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

It's kind of a pain because, you know, you start to deal with HIPAA and all the regulations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

But, you know, you have to get to that some point if you want to be a big company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

We launched the company in May of 2015.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

We were actually at the Collision Conference in Las Vegas and decided to pivot it after the first day of the conference.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

We had a booth and people were coming up and talking to us and we didn't like our company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

It was the first time we really got out of the building and talked to a lot of people at once about what we were doing and realized...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

Uh, it was kind of funny.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

I mean, we just realized like we didn't quite have the passion for the problem, um, and decided to step down to a different problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

So we were building an analytics company similar to what mixed panel and, and, uh, you know, some of those, uh, sort of tools do and realize like our biggest problem was, um, getting companies to send us the data to, to run these analysis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

Um, and, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

And just recognize like every other company like us must be having the same problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

So let's go down and work on that problem instead.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

Yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

And so, yeah, so that's, you know, we're...