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Zach Rosen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
191 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

So the key for them is actually learning the product and training them on the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

Yeah, and we're happy to help them do that because... Why would they do that, though?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

No, so the agencies use us because of the service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

So they really want the software product itself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

So essentially, have you run an agency or have you kind of worked with agencies before?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

So we do have some of those incentives, but it's not the reason most agencies work with us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

So the agencies work with us because it's imagine you're an agency and you have to build a lot of websites for different customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

If you don't use Pantheon, what you have to do is set up your own website operations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

So you have to make sure every developer has a developer sandbox to make sure that they can deploy changes to the live websites safely without breaking things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

You have to make sure the websites are online.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

And traditionally what that means is basically your tech lead, so the most senior developer, has to actually go in and build all these services yourself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

So you're stitching together like GitHub and DigitalOcean and New Relic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

And you can't build for that time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

It's very frustrating.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

And your clients don't care.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

Your clients don't care how you tune in to an app or what your deployment system is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

But you have to do it because you have to actually serve your clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

You don't have one client, you have dozens of clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

So what we do for those agencies is we replace all of that with a free service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

So instead of them having to spend any time