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Venky Balasubramanian

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
191 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

They want to kind of have like multiple players.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

So that's been our, our, you know, kind of, kind of Holy grail in terms of like how we have kind of got a lot of customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

One of our competitors, essentially, does a lot of marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

If you search for their term and alternative, we rank number one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

That drives a lot of traffic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

That drives a lot of traffic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

That's how we started the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

A lot of customers are unhappy with existing pieces out there or competitors out there, so they search for alternatives.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

They come to our website, sign up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

Like we exactly, uh, you know, do a great job in terms of giving them that experience where they don't have the great experience with their existing providers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

So they start scaling without us having to kind of educate the customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

We do a bit of paid, but it's pretty much, uh, pretty much inbound organics.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

We do a bit of, bit of, uh, SEO, uh, SEM, uh, most, mostly our brand keywords, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

Not just that, but there are not too many competitors in the space who do a good job of solving their problems.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

If you search, we are number one pretty much on most of our competitor keywords.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

I don't think we are, I would call ourselves SEO, SCM experts, but it's primarily by the virtue of this market being not too many players in the space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

I think it's a hard problem to solve, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1293 How Plivo Broke $20m in ARR on Only $2m Raised Helping 70,000 Businesses with Communication Integrations

Like it's not just a software layer.