14 Minutes of SaaS - founder stories on business, tech and life

14 Minutes of SaaS - founder stories on business, tech and life

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14 Minutes of SaaS - founder stories on business, tech and life episodes

  • E102 – Georg Petschnigg – 2 of 6 – New Found Liberty
    And, you know, the name, you know, is very much inspired from like working with industrial designers, but also like being familiar with the body. The length of average arms reaches Fifty Three centimetres. That’s the space between head, heart and blank canvas. It's in that circumference where, like, people do their best work. And we wanted to make sure that our tools, which are essential to us for creation, would fit into that space. That’s essentially where in one number, we essentially wrapped up, like mapped to the human body what we set out to with Fifty Three.
    17 min
  • E101 – Georg Petschnigg – 1 of 6 – Not a Real Nowhere Man
    Part 1 of a 6-part series for 14 Minutes of SaaS. Georg Petschnigg in conversation with Stephen Cummins. "It's funny because my childhood rebellion then actually ended up…  you know, leaving that sort of entrepreneurial spirit of the household home and then joining a major American corporation. So I ended up joining Microsoft out of college then and starting my career there. And that was more like, yeah, that's …. my rebellion was working for the man!"
    18 min
  • E100 – Godard Abel – Infinite Aisle of Buyer Experiences – 3 of 3
    "You do need obviously commitment and perseverance – so obviously only pick an idea you really willing to almost die for. Because you will have struggles, every one of my companies had struggles. And so really having that belief that this really should come into the world is super important - so you can get through the tough times."
    14 min
  • E99 – Godard Abel – Data, not Magic – 2 of 3
    "G2, at the beginning there was a lot of skepticism in the first couple of years ... the first 2 million bucks we have to fund ourselves ... VCs were like “I get the concept, but are enterprise users going to share? … and how long is this gonna take you?” And we couldn't generate any revenue either for a couple of years. We had no metrics. So we were fortunate, we could do it because we believed in it so much"
    16 min
  • E98 – Godard Abel – Solving a problem close to home – 1 of 3
    "I started a company in Silicon Valley, but we decided to move to Chicago partly because we had to go the organic road. We had to save money ... So I kind of realised I more, back then, strategy. I had been a consultant MBA, but I was too theoretical about business and I realized, ‘Wow, the only way we're going to grow organically … we have to close the next deal on the table.’ And then I just shifted my priority to like, ‘Hey, what's the next steps to close the next deal?’ And I'm just gonna focus on that kind of like tunnel vision and kept doing that … and then started closing more deals"
    16 min
  • E96 – Eric Boduch – Co-founder of Pendo – Small Town Exit – 1 of 2
    "We looked at each other one night when we were working rather late, which we had a tendency to do. Right. Do we really want to run a consulting company? We looked at each other and we;re both like .. No! So then we start thinking, well, what do we want to do? And from that we said; ‘Well, we really like the idea of building a product!’" Eric Boduch, Co-founder of Pendo
    16 min
  • E95 – Harrison Rose, CoFounder & Chief Customer Officer at Paddle – Speedboat for Scaleups – 2 of 2
    "The US for us is a very large market, if not the largest. And they get to benefit from the luxury that they're existing in a huge market in their own right. They don't have to think about Europe until they're quite late in their journey. But per your comments in doing so, they grow a lot slower than anyone else [internationally]. And I think one way we're encouraging to think about that earlier is by providing them with the infrastructure that they can just turn on" Harrison Rose, CoFounder & Chief Customer Officer at Paddle in conversation with Stephen Cummins of 14 Minutes of SaaS
    16 min
  • E94 – Harrison Rose, CoFounder & Chief Customer Office of Paddle – Schoolboy Entrepreneurs – 1 of 2
    "The same day that I picked up my A-level results, I drove straight to Paddle's first office for our very first day at Paddle. The reason why a SaaS company should either win or lose shouldn't be how well they’ve invested in some of their billing infrastructure … or whether they've done that right or not. It should be on the quality of their products, and the value of that delivery." Harrison Rose, CoFounder & Chief Customer Office of Paddle in conversation with Stephen Cummins, AppSelekt founder & CEO
    15 min
  • E93 – Michael Litt, CEO & coFounder of Vidyard – Pruning the Rosebush – 2 of 2
    "I realised in the process of hiring and going from 50 to 200 people, and taking really good individual contributors and making them managers … we didn't really think about firing. We didn't think about the negative aspect of that and basically pruning the rosebush ...... [on the reverse freemium] "we try to provide as much valuable value as possible to those end users for free, and then have discussions about upgrading to other features over time. If they never do, that's totally fine because they're using us versus a competitor" Michael Litt, CEO and coFounder of video hosting platform Vidyard
    15 min

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