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Tobyn Sowden

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
140 total appearances

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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

And we had no gate on the number of events.

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 the idea being is that we believe you should track everything.

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 don't want to stop you from tracking things just because you want it to limit what you're paying desk metrics.

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, uh, what we, what we realized is that it just doesn't work.

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've got to change to a model where we actually, we've got real costs associated with events.

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, uh, you know, we see user bases that are small, highly valuable, and they want to track a lot of things.

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're moving to a model now where it's a combination of, of, uh, users and events.

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

Uh, 2016.

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

Yeah, I guess March or April.

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 I guess it should be noted as well that we've been building the technology and using in-house for our distribution business for, you know, the three or four years before 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

Yeah, so we have a lot of predictive modeling that we use, and obviously we're using Desmetrics as the underlying data store.

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 we use those in-house for our owned and operated products, but it's something that we're exploring as far as how can we open up the predictive analytics in a scalable way and allow our customers to use it as 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

HostGator?

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

Favorite online tool?

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 using InVision a lot right now.

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're 17 months apart and their age, uh,

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 my 20 year old self really struggled with whether or not to get a degree in business or to get a technical degree in computer science or engineering.

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 I think if I was to go back, I would tell myself technical all the way because learning business is a lot of fun.

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 I think there's a lot of value that comes with that process learned in the real world as 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

I did get a technical degree, but it took me six years to figure that out.

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