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Zach Supalla

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
220 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

Oh, got it, got it, got it, got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

Um, you know, it's so we had a hypothesis when we shipped this parkour that a lot of the people who were backing our campaign were professional engineers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

And when we launched that product, we really weren't telling an enterprise story.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

We were saying, this is for developers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

Um, this is for engineers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

This is for hobbyists to build prototypes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

Our thought was a lot of these people are gonna be building prototypes in a professional context.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

What they're doing is they're building the first prototype of something that they're eventually gonna wanna ship

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

thousands and or millions of.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

And so we spent from 2014 to today, building out the platforms to help people move through the stages of development and eventually ship the product to scale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

So originally it was all development tools.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

And then we layered in all these management tools to help you oversee and manage a fleet of devices that you've already shipped to customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

And we've launched that stuff in probably late 2015.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

So, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

Uh, so originally all the growth came from just selling more dev kits.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

You know, we, we, there, it was 40 bucks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

Our whole business was just, our revenue was all just selling spark cores.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

And then, um, we started to get customers who would buy a bunch of them, um, because they'd be making a thousand of something.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla

So they buy a thousand spark cores.