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Sheri Atwood

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
178 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

They're all custom built.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

And they're all on average 10 years or older and made on mainframe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

Salesforce, obviously incredibly successful, has done a great job in the private sector, but hasn't had a lot of penetration in the government space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

And so they're trying to move government applications to the cloud.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

And I happen to have an application that would get them into the government space quickly and something that, again, $6 billion alone is being spent on this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

No, so I'm actually built on the force.com platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

So I'm built on it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

So going after eventually at some point, converting these consumer base to actually go after the government space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

And then since I'm built on the force.com platform, it would give them an in into the government.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

I got a great introduction to him and he saw the value of the product and really saw the value more on the social side, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

So our goal here, and I'm not in this to make money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

If I wanted to make money, I'd be back in Silicon Valley as a corporate executive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

My goal here is I was that kid where my parents fought constantly about money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

I felt like that's all they cared about.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

And unfortunately, when parents no longer live together, the only time they ever see each other is when they're exchanging the kid and those turn into these financial conversations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

So I really wanted to end the fighting that happens, you know, which impacts all of us socially.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

And so Tim not only saw the business value, but also the social value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

Hey, this is happening in the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

How can we reduce the amount of conflict that kids have to witness when their parents are no longer together?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
714: You Won't Believe What This Divorced Mom Raised $7 Million For

Sorry, a what?