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Tobyn Sowden

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
140 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

right now is Facebook.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

Facebook's got a phenomenal ad platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

Their tracking is one of the best and the ability to attribute not just on a download but also multiple points through the funnel and kind of working in conjunction with a solution like Desmetrics.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

It works wonders and it can optimize very quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

And obviously with the size of the audience that Facebook commands, you can grow a product quickly if you're using those type of right tools.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

We are currently spending probably $30,000, but we've got a commitment to grow to a million dollars and a quarter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

Well, it's more of a commitment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

We're working closely with some teams at Facebook to grow our businesses and some of our customers' businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

And they're supporting us in a way that requires us to commit to be at a level that is a million dollars a quarter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

So the idea behind Shift originally was Electron, the framework, it's really starting to become something we're seeing in applications like

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

like Slack, where you can build once for the desktop and then deploy across all the platforms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

And Slack's a great example of a company that's done that well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

And so we thought, hey, why don't we build software analytics for people that are building on top of the Electron framework?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

well, let's show people how to do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

Let's build an app ourselves.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

So we ended up building shift to do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

And it turned out after we kind of launched it in preview, preview release in September, that it was something that, you know, people really wanted.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

And so what shift does light is switch between your Gmail accounts, your Google accounts in general, in between your, your mail, your calendar and drive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

I think, I think a lot of people have had this issue, whether, whether or not they're using, you know, multiple browsers or incognito mode or the ad account method or,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden

They just straight up use IMAP or POP.