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Steve Pockross

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
146 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

And it's one of the few ways that you can market in a way that is that fits the right tone and the appropriate tone for the times that we're in, which is you don't have to be aggressive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

You prepare your your story for when people are looking for it as opposed to when they're not ready for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

So we have a limit on the number of paused moments you can have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

One of the reactions that we had to COVID is to expand the number of months that a customer could pause.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

It used to be three months, and now we're up to four, and we're looking at all options as far as we want to make sure that our clients have enough time to come back to us for when they're ready.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

Actually, yes, we did, but we only launched it last July.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

So we're just learning about it now and we feel pretty fortunate that we got that in before this happened.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

So we had a pretty aggressive hiring plan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

We grew by 50%, 47% last year with pretty much the same team supporting it and some additional contractors that went on board.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

And so we actually had a hiring plan moving towards doubling the team from 12 to 24 in a very short period of time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

What we did was we moved a lot of those to contract hires.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

So three of the key hires got moved to contractors, but we still brought on everybody.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

So we're done with hiring, but I don't plan to change that or to let anybody go.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

So we have 17 or 18 full-time hires right now and seven.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

So we're 23 with the additional full-time contractors too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

Of those total six are engineers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

We don't.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

We only have an inbound sales lead.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

We just brought on a fractional VP of sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1719 He's Expecting $500k PPP Stimulus Check for Virus, At $6m ARR Today, Whats next?

That was one of the positions that we moved to contractor who is figuring out our messaging right now and kind of how do we move to outbound in the right appropriate way at this time.