Eric Rea
person on 3 shows · 8 statements across 2 episodes · said 17 times in 6 episodes since 2016
Top Founders 8 
20VC 5 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 4
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Top Founders 820VC 5the Official SaaStr Podcast 4
2026 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- Who Owns Your Data Now? Agents vs. Systems of Record on The Agents #013
- The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2021 3 mentions in 1 episode
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Podium scaled from $0 to $60M ARR in four years
“In the past five years, my co-founder Dennis and I have built a SaaS company outside of Silicon Valley from zero to sixty million dollars of ARR in four years.”
Non-Valley founders face a higher risk of quitting due to disbelief
“And so outside of Silicon Valley, I think that all of us here are at far more risk of quitting because people just won't believe in what we're doing.”
Podium hit 550 employees and $92M in funding in four years
“Four years ago, it was me and my co-founder Dennis in the spare bedroom of my apartment. Today, we have 550 employees. Ninety-two million dollars of funding”
Podium pre-sold 10 businesses before the founders invested $750 each
“So, once we got about 10 businesses to sign up, then we invested our 750 dollars each, we built the MVP, and we just, and we launched it.”
Non-technical founders must hire engineers before building a sales team
“And I think it's really important to hire an engineer first if you're not, if you don't already have engineering power because if you don't have a great product, you're kind of screwed even if you're great at sales.”
Eric Rea: Podium Charges $299 per Month per Location
“So we charge it. 299 dollars a month. And that's per location.”
Rea: Podium runs its whole business on Domo BI software
“Okay, so it's a local company. It's called Domo BI company, and I didn't even know if they had a real product, but we just started using about six months ago, and I, like, our whole business is basically run on Domo.”