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Zeb Evans

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
429 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

the whole vision for it was to be able to prioritize your work and know exactly what people should work on next.

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

So picture a list of five tasks that each person has in your company that this is their priority.

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

It just never took off.

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

It never really went anywhere.

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

And so it actually still exists in our product.

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

And I know we'll be able to get back to it at some point and use automation to make it better.

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

But that was certainly a flop.

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

Six people.

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

So I'm the PM and the EM.

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

So it's five engineers plus myself.

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

Yeah.

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

So Alex was at IBM when I found him.

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

And I knew I needed a very technical CTO and co-founder to build this thing with.

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

And so I had always been pretty technical myself.

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

I know how to code, but I was using old technology.

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

I knew PHP.

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

And I don't really know JavaScript, at least in the back end side of it.

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

And so when we were starting

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

By the way, Mango is just the name for the parent company for ClickUp.

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

Mango is a DBA for ClickUp.