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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

And then we started making modules.

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 not development kits, but actually things that you could really design into a mass manufacturable product.

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 that started to become a bunch of our business.

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 started selling the software platform as a subscription service and that layered on.

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 launched a cellular platform and SIM cards and that became a huge part of our business.

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 it's sort of like for a hardware startup.

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

One of the challenges that companies face as they scale is going from being a product to being a company.

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 being a company means you are more than your product.

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

In many ways, you're a portfolio of products and solutions.

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 that's what we've become.

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 basically have...

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, growth of each individual product as we just generally get better at marketing and selling them.

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

But then also we keep layering on new products and new solutions on top of that.

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 that's what comes together to create a lot of growth.

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're shooting to double again.

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 it's actually, you know, 10 is sort of our goal.

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 just want to keep going down that path.

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

Right now we're 35 people full time.

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 have a handful of contractors who help out with various things.

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 where's home?