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Taro Fukuyama

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
176 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

Please give us this gun so we can send you more customers from Salesforce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

The other one is called employee recognition program.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

Recently, especially a lot of millennial are so used to post on Snapchat, Instagram, and once you do it, five seconds later, they get likes or comments.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

So that type of instant recognition is getting so important, but that's what they require in the workforce today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

So if they work really hard, they want to get recognized by the manager or company immediately right after they do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

So how the program works is as a company, you can give budget to each manager and manager can give recognition to the employee with the points attached.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

And they can use those points to exchange with gift cards, you know, skydiving experience, one day PTO, those type of stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

It's a good way to bring more recognition within the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

Roughly over 1,000 company-ish right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

And then average sweet spot is few hundred size of employee companies to few thousand employee size of companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

That's roughly the customer base we have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

Yeah, mostly like 500 employee size of companies is the average that we see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

But pretty much most of the perks we have are available to all the customers we have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

So one of the beauties is that even if you're a small company, you don't have time and negotiation power as much as Google does.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

But if you work with us, then you can access to those perks immediately.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

So there's a little bit, you know, that discount based on the, you know, size of company, those kinds of stuff, but that's how you do the math.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

Uh, yeah, that's fine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

You have this revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
946 He Changed Ideas 7 Times at Y Combinator, Now 500,000 Employees More Engaged Because of Him

Uh,