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Shashank Murali

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
97 total appearances

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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

point becomes how well the expert projects his or her profile on our platform and that becomes a key.

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 way we look at it is every expert's profile is a very crucial page like how Amazon treats its product page so sadly.

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 treat our expert profile pages that sadly.

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 introduce

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 what is your goal?

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

Like I said, we still focus a lot more on our operating metric, which is the number of interactions on the platform and the amount of time spent on these 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

So we are aiming at about 1 to 1.5 million minutes of interactions by the end of 2017.

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 how do you grow?

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

Like I said, so today TapChief is a pure-play transaction sort of a platform that is you come, you schedule a consultation, you go away.

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 we wanted it to be like that when we sort of started the product and the business.

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

But as we have sort of come through the lifecycle, we realized that there needs to be a much more stronger engagement layer through which our users continuously sort of hear from our experts and can passively consume their knowledge.

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 then eventually, which turns into a consultation at some point in time, 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

So this is why they're sort of, like I was saying, launching multiple things as engagement strategies on the platform.

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 a gamified Q&A of sorts is in the works.

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 that's all I can say right now.

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

I can't give too much information.

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 I mean in the sense that we are making a decent bit of revenue from a lot of partnerships and B2B collaborations and so on and so forth.

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

Like what?

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

like we have teamed up with online education courses where you know we power their one-to-one interactions through our supply and network of experts and through our technology while they just focus on doing the courses so there are multiple sort of such collaborations which are in place which drives revenue what would they pay for something like that

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

They pay for something like that because it's extremely difficult to pull off one-to-one interactions from a wide supply or network of experts from various domains for various other organizations for whom they're not best at this.