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Vlad Malanin

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

We were less than two months of the runaway.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

Some people were drafted to the army.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

There was the ongoing war in Ukraine where our R&D stayed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

So we were panicking.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

The first decision we made is even before that happens, we stopped all the salaries to both of the founders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

Like enables your built-in mechanism of survival because you know that, okay, they may have no salary in two months, but we do not have it already today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

100% no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

It's definitely worth way more than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

So Speak Size basically does something that is in one or two sentences, we do AI media compression, even one sentence.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

Yeah, it is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

Because the more we live, the bigger data becomes, especially the modern rich media websites with a lot of videos.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

And as you mentioned, all those 360 animations, here are videos, product videos, all that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

And it's not only about the fact of using that kind of media per se, it's also the fact that you need to maintain the quality and brands care about that a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

Yeah, we have around 200 customers, and most of them, as you can imagine, they're fashion brands, clothing, apparel, this kind of industry, however, not limited.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

We also work with travel industry, we work with jewelry, we work with marketplaces, so all that kind of, I would say, general e-commerce with a focus on fashion brands mostly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

So Crocs specifically, we don't work with their main location.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

So with Crocs specifically, we work with the Israel subdivision, their official retailer, WeShoes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

And WeShoes is the biggest shoes retail.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

Can you spell it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story

Just WeShoes.co.il.

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