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Tomer Levy

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199 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

Just as we launched the company, we started writing content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

Today, we're the number one contributor of content to the ELK community.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

So if you search Google for ELK or AWS, ELK in production, we're number one in Google in all of these searches.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

And we're contributing a lot to the community and also getting, obviously, traction and leads from these articles.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

And I will add one more thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

And this is very delicate for open source.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

The open source has to be good enough to get started, good enough, easy to get started and use it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

So it will have mass distribution, but it has to get to a point where it's hard to scale it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

It's hard to make it production grade.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

And this is where commercial companies have a lot of leverage.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

So we have today about one, you know, just again, one and a half years in the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

We have about a thousand companies from 80 different countries which use Logzeo.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

A few hundred of them are paying customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

A few hundred of them are free users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

I'll keep that one private, but a few hundreds.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

So we actually had to make a decision very early on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

We raised money, but we could have built a lifestyle business out of this company very easily because we had traction day zero.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder

We made the decision we want to build something big.