Buffer surpasses 50,000 paying customers
“And we just hit 50,000 paying customers a few days ago, which I'm really excited about.”
Buffer nears $9 million ARR, expects to hit $10 million by March
“We're not quite at 10, so you're, we're at about 8.9, or so almost nine, so we're estimating that we'll get to 10 by March”
Widrich and Gascoigne held weekly mastermind meetings for five years
“We've been doing this for the last five years once a week, and it's totally transformed my relationship with my co-founder.”
Widrich: Founders should avoid problem-solving each other in masterminds
“The one tip here, if you experiment with that, is to sort of avoid solving each other's problems, and instead really practice listening and the Socratic method, which is sort of to ask more questions and to, you know, really let that person come up with their …”
Widrich: Early startups should prioritize qualitative feedback over quantitative charts
“I think, I actually believe that it can be such a huge distraction early on when you're building your company, where you get too focused, too narrowed in, in, in trying to look at charts, look at numbers, when it can actually be much more useful to focus on th…”
Growing SaaS companies must keep an in-house copy of raw data
“Frankly, in a very hard way is that you always want to keep some, like, at least one copy of your data in-house, and there is a lot of people in a company that sometimes will walk up to you and say you shouldn't do that, right?”
Widrich: Founders should seek opposing expert opinions on major decisions
“Whenever you have those big conversations, try and get two opposing opinions that you really respect. And in the past I would like talk with someone and be so hooked and now my, Immediate goal is, after I've had one of those conversations, is to immediately go…”
Hiten Shah: Buffer Founders Advanced Corporate Transparency Movement Significantly
“They've really pushed this movement around transparency and openness a lot further. And I'm sure there's, they've impacted many more businesses than the countless businesses. Right. And that, that kind of, regardless of what happens with their business, they'v…”