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Soumya Murthy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
253 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

And so we looked at our office managers, engineers, everyone in there, and started to assess their natural talent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

There was natural improvisation talent, natural driver talent, natural these pieces.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

And we had executives who had templates on how to do some of this and some of the nits and grits of marketing, if you will.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

So what we did was we created a six-month program to say, look, guys, you self-enroll, you self-exit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

This is you saying you want to do this, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

Full agency.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

And you get creative ownership, front of board, executive coaching.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

These are folks taking on some very heavy duty things in their mid 20s, late 20s.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

and we were putting them in extreme situations, and they did fantastic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

We had to monitor for one thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

This company had the roots of buildership, which is what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

Everything's got to be perfect.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

You're putting code out, it's got to be.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

No, you can't.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

This is marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

You got to get out the door.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

So it created a lot of pressure for them because they believed accuracy was it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

So helping them step off that and move into created a lot of contribution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

At the end, these guys were brand design architects, evangelists, managing our digital events management ship, all of that with a team of four people, four to five people making it happen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Reduce Your Employee 'Burn Rate' to Improve Your Startup's Burn Rate: 5 Tips for Talent Retention

So talent can expand.