John Samuelson

Everything John Samuelson said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Samuelson: European developers are less whiny than US developers

“I've found developers in Europe especially just seem to Not be so whiny, just to put it blunt”

John Samuelson Oct 6, 2020 ▶ 23:10 Episode 517 | Married Co-founders Who Turned a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS Product

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Engineering tool purchasing power sits with directors, not developers

“Most software engineers are not the person that can swipe the credit card and engineering managers can, but we see it sometimes usually goes up to directors of engineering that are usually like, yep, I approve because they usually own a budget.”

John Samuelson Oct 13, 2020 ▶ 18:38 Episode 518 | A Live LinkedIn Ads Consult with Anthony Blatner and Scatterspoke

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Samuelson: Enterprise features for ScatterSpoke unexpectedly boosted small team conversions

“We built a bunch of custom features for that big enterprise client. Those features now work for all of our small teams just as well, right? So we built these enterprise grade features for these guys that wanted them, and it's actually helped the smaller end fu…”

John Samuelson Oct 6, 2020 ▶ 13:26 Episode 517 | Married Co-founders Who Turned a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS Product

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Samuelson: Side-hustle founder guilt is a heavier burden than long hours

“The biggest thing to me is I can work long hours. I can work hard. That's just part of who I am, but it's more of a guilt problem to me. And what I mean by that is, like, if I'm not at my W-II job, and I'm at home, and it's a Saturday, and I take four hours to…”

John Samuelson Oct 6, 2020 ▶ 17:37 Episode 517 | Married Co-founders Who Turned a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS Product

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Samuelson: Technical founders must accept imperfect code to scale

“You cannot Hold everybody to your standards, and at the end of the day, and after being an engineer for many years, it doesn't matter if, you know, the buttons work. There's so many big systems are built with duct tape, and they work, so you gotta get over tha…”

John Samuelson Oct 6, 2020 ▶ 25:01 Episode 517 | Married Co-founders Who Turned a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS Product

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Johnson: Early maker mindset caused ScatterSpoke to overreact to user feedback

“I think in some ways being kind of a maker project hurt us early on. We, you know, John was excited to try out new technology and I was so close to the teams using it that every time we heard feedback about the simplest thing, we tried to go implement that or …”

Colleen Johnson Oct 6, 2020 ▶ 5:56 Episode 517 | Married Co-founders Who Turned a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS Product

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens John's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF USLEDGER	Co-Founder & CTO, ScatterSpoke	2	5	—	full record on Startups For the Rest of Us →