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Tim Fargo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
126 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

And I didn't start out with the idea of, wow, this is going to be great for the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

I started out with, you know, I'm sick of doing this and I want something to fix it for me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

Yeah, I mean, I pick up probably about 400 to 500 new people every day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

Right now, we've got about 16,000 users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

And I guess yesterday, as an example, we had just over 150,000 tweets go out yesterday.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

Yeah, I mean, we have a ton of traffic going out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

And we're actually, today is, interestingly enough, today, because we started out, it was funny, we started out with this, like, what we thought was going to be this, like, smoking server, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

You know, because we're like, hey, we're going to get some people, and then we'll need all this iron.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

So anyhow, but you know, we're thinking like a couple thousand people will show up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

And so anyhow, today we're cutting over to Amazon Web Services, so, because we can't scale in the environment we're in, so we're moving.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

None of them have become a paying customer because they don't have that option yet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

I mean, from the beginning, there's a couple things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

I think if you're launching, I mean, we did a free model, and let me explain why, because I think this is also important for people that have a relatively new idea that they want to have a subscription model for at some point, but...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

If the idea is fairly new, you've got a couple challenges because now you've got to explain what you're doing and how it will benefit people and then ask for money too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

And that's a lot to ask.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

I mean, that's a big ask unless you've got a real โ€“

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

Awesome problem solver.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

But if you let people try something over time and have a fairly long enough trial period that people can kind of get in and really experience it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Filed Bankrupt Then Made Millions

And we wanted to knock the kinks out as well.