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Sowmya Murthy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
213 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

It's still sitting in the bank.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

At 2019?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

Seven.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

So we've been flat for three years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

So we went from zero to 3.5, 3.5 to 5, 5 to 7 and flat.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

Part of it is demonstrating our pipeline, which has been tremendous.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

The hustle has been real.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

I believe that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

And the pipeline has been real, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

So when we did the turn in the marketplace on going with the new product, we ourselves were astounded when we saw that the free option, before we even hit into 2021 or even launched the product, we had two dozen real solid companies saying,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

Once you launch it fully and you get a couple of folks saying yes, we're in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

Put us in the trial.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

So now what we have is a backlog of folks wanting to do the trial.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

So when you see a real pipeline like that backed by VP levels, controller levels, operations supervisors, and it's real, we're able to take that to the marketplace and say, hey,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

We've got real traction.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

Favorite, don't have one, but I am in the middle of reading Mastery by Robert Greene.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

One of my biggest challenges now is just how to take all the mastery that Shiva and I have gathered and pull that into the rest of the team, right?