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Zeb Evans

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
429 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

But we have kind of an awesome head of sales, Tommy, and he's really pushed us hard on sales hiring.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

And it's worked phenomenally well for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

I mean, I think that the reality is, again, going back to this flexible platform that you have simple use cases, but also very complex use cases.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

The complex use cases takes a hand-holding process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

And, and so, yeah, I mean, it's, it started off, you know, small, but it's, it's, it's a big portion of our revenue today is the handholding process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

Um, we were around just a few million dollars in revenue, probably a little, a little bit more than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

I would say six, seven, 8 million in revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

Um, and, and I mean, we had, of course we had, you know, some enterprises reaching out to us and I was, um, you know, using a fake name to, to, to be the acting salesperson in some of the calls.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

Um, but yeah, I mean, when, when he joined, we, we hired our first couple of salespeople and it's just been kind of a rocket ship growth on the sales side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

You know, you appear small, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

You kind of appear small when the CEO is the person doing the sales and answering the questions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

So I kind of had to do that early on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

Tyler.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

We're a little bit less than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

We'll see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

Yeah, I mean, it's a great question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

And the simplest answer is that I didn't enjoy many of the VC conversations that I had until I met David Sachs at Kraft.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

And he's obviously an entrepreneur himself and kind of just, I think, was more in the mindset that I was and kind of letting us run the company and doing the same things that we've always done.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

So, I mean, that I would say would be the biggest piece to it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats

But I mean, the second piece is, look, we're in, you know, again, a very, very competitive market.