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Todd Olson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
613 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

And we were like, sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

Of course, we didn't think we could, but we had no idea it was gonna break.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

And that was the key lesson, is what we thought was going to break wasn't the thing that actually broke when we turned it on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

We turned it on on a Friday.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

It absolutely cratered some portion of our system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

The engineering team spent the entire weekend, 24-hour days, patching up what it was.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

It got it usable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

Now we had to make the performance substantially better than what they were using before.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

That took probably another month, but we were very communicative with the customers every week.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

And look, we said, we want to earn your business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

Give us a month to handle your scale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

And if we can handle your scale, a performance that you like, give us the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

And we earned the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

They're still a customer today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

They're one of our largest data providers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

You can think about, we can basically collect data from products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

Think about someone using a Zendesk.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

They're in the product all day long.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

It's an incredible amount of data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

Another one's like Schoology, which is an ed tech company, which has an incredible,