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Samir Patel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
182 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

So the good news is that the market, you know, that the decision cycles move

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

really, really fast compared to, you know, I've done this for HR, I've done this for all sorts of categories.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

I feel like where, you know, these markets move much faster because nobody has time to sit around.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

Um...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

No, it's none.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

I mean, we've done a really good job of being able to sell remotely into accounts that don't require us to do a lot of travel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

And where we feel like the account sizes are big, we have feet on the street.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

Honestly, I think it's a question of us cleverly balancing our hosting and infrastructure costs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

Because remember, a lot of what Kahuna does is real time, like within four seconds of you

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

leaving a breadcrumb somewhere in a mobile app of a customer, Kahuna updates your profile within four seconds or less.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

That kind of compute power can, you know, it's something that we've helped customers figure out where you need that level of real time and near real time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

And we help them sort of craft out that cost.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

So for us, it's just a question of being very clever about having the architecture built in a way where we charge for things that matter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

And, you know, we don't pass on excessive costs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

We shouldn't be charging a customer for a Ferrari, you know, every time they need to go to the grocery store.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

You can buy a Ferrari.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

No, no, I could, but we've, we've managed the architecture in a way where, um, you know, we, those are, we have a straight line to go to manage that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

But yes, if we gave the Ferrari to everybody, then you're just, you know, you're passing on costs to a customer that they're like, well, okay, give it to me for the use cases.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

Uh, we did, we did an inside round in Q4, not really talked about the numbers, but we did an inside round.