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Sushma Sharma

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
138 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

That I wish was faster.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

I wish we had more traction.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

Well, because I have pretty ambitious goals, I would say.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

We are only three months old as far as we opened like mid of October.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

And since then, we really made an effort to get people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

And the hope was to get the same people who would be providers and seekers too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

So they learn and they share at the same time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

And it becomes like an infinite loop where you make money, you spend money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

But we've seen more people on the provider side, and that's been our focus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

Let's fill that up first.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

And half of...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

The provider boxes are what I would say seek boxes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

But the traction in itself, there has been a bit of a slow intake because the whole Stripe thing has been another hurdle because you want to make sure people, the money goes straight to their bank account.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

So they all come on the side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

They're happy to do the free conversations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

But as soon as it comes to the paid ones, they are like, oh, what is Stripe?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

And then that's another hurdle for us to explain to them that, hey, it's a very famous company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

It's doing really well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

It's very safe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 600: Konversai Raises $1.3M Helping 800 Teachers Make Money With Marketplace CEO Sushma Sharma

Your money is going to be safe.