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Sindre Haaland

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
170 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

What are the two?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

You should almost just bundle them into the base package at this point, I guess.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

But yeah, it's the boost module, so it's like the actual gamification components with the competitions in particular, and it's the reward module, which is like this coin

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

that you can introduce inside a platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

And then you can have your own internal web shop where people can exchange these coins that you make through unlocking badges or hitting your quota or winning prizes in competitions and exchange them for actual gift cards or days off or giving push-ups to your manager or whatever you want to have in that web shop.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

and so the company was launched in 2011 actually i was a student at the time uh but the sales screen product which we are known for now that came on the market in march 2014 and you know the idea came after iterating with multiple sauce products that eventually died out or failed but this idea came from a client which was using

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

Well, for other tools for a different purpose that I didn't think of, like we had this messaging SaaS application set out to kind of replace text message for corporates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

And this one advertisement sales company, like the Yellow Pages just in the Nordics, they sent out like a text message every time somebody closed a deal to create like a virtual tap on the back, even though we're not working or working in the field or in the call center.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

And they used our tool for this purpose of like motivating their sales team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

Was that your first customer in 2014?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

It became the first customer because I would say they were instrumental in forming the idea behind Sales Screen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

We built pretty much every feature since then based on customer requests and what customers were willing to

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

pay for us to prioritize to develop.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

So big thanks to them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

We did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

We actually bootstrapped all the way up to 2018 and surpassed $3 million in ARR as a bootstrap company, 100% employee-owned before we took out outside money for the first time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

I think we can go back to 2017 because that's the point where we passed $2 million in ARR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

We were growing nicely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

We had this amazing company culture.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

Everyone was making good dollars.