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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

Yeah, it should be like this.

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

Yeah, this is one of the biggest, if not the biggest websites that sell shoes.

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

And they use us pretty much across everything.

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

Yeah, this is all us.

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

Now, so they control only the image data.

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

So we did not work with the business data like the description, although we can possibly, it might be a pivot in the future.

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

So the idea is that we do the AI image analysis.

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

So we know exactly what's on the image.

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

And this is a part of our technology because we need to know, we need to emulate the human brain and how it perceives the visual information on the screen.

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

Yeah, so we had, I would say that it's not the standard yet natural for me, especially way to handle the team.

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

So two years ago, we used to be 50 people.

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

And we decided to focus and make a leaner team.

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

So now we are around 20, 25 people and a couple of contractors.

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

And the tech subdivision out of that is around 70%.

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

So we are mostly tech people right now.

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

And before that, when we used to have 50, it was less than 50% of technical people.

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

Yeah, so we do not work with SMBs.

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

So our main audience is the mid-markets and small enterprises and ideally big enterprises.

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

So we do have some big brands, yet not that long.

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

Fortune 100.