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Shashank Murali

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
97 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

So all of these consultations happen over a telephonic conversation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

Not all, about 20 to 30% have already made money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

So it depends a lot on how much effort an expert puts into his or her profile.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

So we give sort of varied options for an expert to project themselves better, to try and rank better on our search results.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

And once a user sort of lands up on their profile, how do you attract the user to actually place a consultation?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

So we, you know, give a lot of tips and tricks to our experts to increase their chances of getting consultations, but that's been a process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

And yeah, so we have seen a large increase over time as we have introduced more and more things, more and more tools for the expert to get better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

So yeah, we do measure revenue, but one interesting aspect is that 40% of our experts do this pro bono, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

That is they don't charge any money at all and they do it simply for the effort of sort of giving back and they like giving back and helping out youngsters and young businesses and so on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

Um, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

What we primarily measure is the amount of interactions that are happening on the platform because today priority and the main prerogative for us is to sort of grow the community as opposed to focusing too much on monetization.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

We've raised about 150K.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

We're poised to cross 100 hours of interactions this month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

Yeah, so we're poised to cross about 100 to 125 hours of interactions this month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

Yeah, 100 to 125 hours of interactions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

Yeah, it's primarily definitely to, you know, getting more users to sort of request consultations with these experts, because like I said, we have a pretty diverse set already in terms of experts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 601: TapChief Passes 75,000 Minutes Of Experts Teaching Students, $150k Raised, Team of 10 with 23 yo CEO Shashank Murali

So the main, the key, however the key