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Stacey Epstein

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
203 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

If you're doing 50, it's you're playing closer to list price.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

Um, well, a little bit of both.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

Uh, we were born out of another company that was just focused on a work texting app.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

So sort of like WhatsApp for work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

that was founded by some of the product leads at Yammer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

And it had been, it was a freemium model that had been in business for a couple of years and great product, but wasn't really going anywhere on the go-to marketing side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

So together with the board, I came in and we basically- The Yammer board?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

No, no, no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

The board of that company, which was called Kotap.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

So we came in and we basically took the assets of that company, which was Kotap, and the great core product, built out the product and relaunched it as Zinc.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

So I am the founder of Zinc, but there is a little bit more of a story there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

Our product's been around a few years longer than I have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

Well, it was never public.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

I mean, they were a little startup.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

So we relaunched as Zinc in the middle of 2016.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

Pretty much.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

Yeah, well, they were no longer at Yammer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1374 Your Dish Network Repair Man Probably Uses This $1m+ ARR Tool For Communication

I mean, their background's interesting because they focused on communication.