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Zeb Evans

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
429 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

And I'll start by saying, I think I'm still, I still have very much an advocate for bootstrap as long as you can until you get product market fit through, through getting product market fit after your product market fit, raise capital and efficient means when you know, unit economics and you can spend capital and in sustainable ways.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

I think so.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

It's still as, as, you know, as ridiculous amount of money that we have raised a half a billion dollars,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

We still very much focus on doing it in a sustainable way where we have a net positive impact after spending every single dollar.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

And so to answer your question, of course, marketing and paid acquisition is a big piece of growth, particularly in a very competitive category.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

We have to out-market and out-maneuver our competitors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

But product and innovation and R&D always has to be top of mind as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

At the end of the day, the only defensibility that we have is moving faster than our competitors and building a better product and a better user experience than they can as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

So acquisitions will certainly be on our radar in the very near future, as is scaling globally.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

We're opening offices around the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

being able to localize our product in several different languages as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

Yeah, we have just shy over 800 employees today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

And on the engineering side, about 100 engineers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

Yeah, we say one app to replace them all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

That's the familiar messaging that we place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

But the reality is, you know, we're not trying to replace every single application.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

We do think that we can put all of your workplace productivity software in one place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

And that is ultimately our true mission.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

And outside of that, we play very nicely with every other integration on the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans

And so we built our platform in a scalable way where we can build integrations very quickly.