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Tom Gibby

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
142 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

They maybe have an urgent use case that they want to launch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

And so if they want to pay us a bit of money to help build that for them, that means that we can get them off to a quicker and better start.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

So we actually find that in the instances where some customers pay us a bit of money to build a couple of bots for them at the beginning, they get some really good success stories really quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

That also then gives them a bit of time if they have some urgent use cases

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

They don't need to worry about learning how to use a new platform, a new tool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

They can let us do that for them while simultaneously training their team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

Then within a few weeks when they're much more comfortable with using our platform themselves, they can just go off to the races and build whatever they want.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

Ooh, maybe around 70, maybe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

Zero, something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

I can give you some other growth stats.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

I mean, cash and receivables were up 81% year on year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

Last month, our invoicing is up 130% compared to last year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

Bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

We toyed with the idea of raising about a year, well, I'd say about two and a half years ago, maybe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

And we actually decided that it might be much more valuable for us to spend that time that we would invest into raising to just invest into growing the business and trying to generate sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

And that's what we did and it worked out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

So, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bot Building SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR With Just $300k Raised

Basically, that's what we were doing.