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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

So we made a pivot and we decided instead of heavily relying on direct sales, we decided to go focused on partnerships.

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

So we are fully based in AWS and we are a premium partner of AWS.

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

And AWS, since they do not have native...

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

image and video compression, AWS offers SpeedSize as a solution for image and video compression as well.

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

And we have a variety of partnerships, we have the

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

We have the agencies which are promoting speed size.

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

Yeah, it's the right page.

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

And it's very natural for AWS Marketplace because this is just the generic requirements to become a partner.

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

And in this case, you cannot buy us like this.

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

You cannot just go to the Marketplace

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

and buyers, there is no like real way to buy this.

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

So it will still redirect you.

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

Yes, so we are right now being adopted by IBM Cloud as well.

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

And it's early in the process as IBM also is restructuring their cloud services.

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

They're changing their CDN and they want to become big because they kind of lost the race early in the days, even though they're a huge company.

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

So it also looks promising.

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

And our idea is that we want to be in the places in the cloud suppliers who lack the native image and video compression and delivery.

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

So think of AWS, of course, Google Clouds, Microsoft Azure, because other suppliers like CloudFlare, Akamai, they already have the built-in one, which is not great, but for most of the customers that works.

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

Yeah, for the contract, it's roughly that.

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

I cannot give you the exact numbers, so roughly around that number.