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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

It's like minimum sellable product that if there is a

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

person that's going to be willing to pay, then most likely you can find a second one.

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 if you can get two of those, then most likely you can get 10 of those.

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

Then eventually you can get 100,000 of customers.

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

We had only PDF of the idea.

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

Yep, we have three of us, all co-founders.

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

One engineer, one designer, one me.

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

I was doing everything for 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 50 employee size.

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

Okay, all in San Fran?

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

Yep, everyone in the same office in San Francisco.

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

Maybe one day.

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

Yep, so it's less about employee, it's more about the company admin.

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

As long as HRs care about the culture and if they have the programs.

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

For the perk side, it's more like turn on and off.

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 for the recognition side, as long as they have program thought about it already and as long as there is a funding that they're doing behind of the program, then that's a sign that they will not churn for a while.

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

We do it on the revenue side.

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

Well, we do look at both of logo churn and revenue churn, but we know that we tend to lose more of a smaller segment size, and then we know that we are not trying to focus on that segment either.

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 focusing on logo churn could kill us to focus on the wrong thing, so we tend to focus on the revenue side.

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

Right now, on the monthly basis, we try to stay around 1% on the monthly revenue side.