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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?

And so we just launched it in January, Nathan, the free option.

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

So we've got fundamentally, it's been Shiva and myself who's been driving the sales.

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

And we knew last year, we said, we can't, we've got to bring somebody else on.

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

We knew, but here's the thing.

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

In the past, what we'd done was taken advice and brought on salespeople, but because we didn't have like the 98% customer retention rate and the referrals and all these other aspects, when you bring in enterprise salespeople, there's a certain expectation for us to be

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

successful for them to even feel.

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

So we weren't able to retain them and we didn't want to make that costly mistake again.

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

Right.

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

It still is that it still is.

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 still is high 90.

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

So it's right now at 95 to 97.

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

It's it, I say that because I'm, I haven't gotten the latest numbers from my retention or growth.

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

Yes.

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

Yes.

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?

And so, um, uh, so now what we did last year was brought on South, uh, say a SAS sales leadership.

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

We just hired a sales director.

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

He's two weeks in and drinking from a fire hose.

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

At the moment, great question.