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Sam Cagliucci

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
154 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

36.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

I would include, so BizDev, marketing, and we only have a few customer success people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

And our customer success folks are largely part of the sales process because we're very land and expand as a model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

So our customer success team is very intimately involved in our upselling and expansion process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

So it's 18, 18.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

Seven.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

So we had one seller prior to the close of the financing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

That financing was twofold.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

One, let's accelerate engineering.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

And then number two was build out our sales force.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

Is it working?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

I mean, I think that we have a process that we feel very confident in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

The process is working.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

You know, I think that there's always places in any business to optimize.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

For us, you know, we're in a category of folks who see workforce training as a nice to have, not always a need to have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

So we spent a lot more dollars on the growth side, marketing team, top of funnel, primarily focusing on how do we educate people about the problem that we know is there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

It's tough to be in a space where I see ourselves as creating a category.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

Um, there are no other game platforms when it comes to workforce development or employee performance.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

So we battle the status quo, which means our sales team has to do things a little bit differently than other.