Jesse Poogee

Founder & CEO, Gateway X · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jesse Pujji is the Founder and CEO of Gateway X, a venture studio and holding company. He previously co-founded digital performance marketing agency Ampush and co-founded GrowthAssistant.

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Insight

Solopreneurs Require Enterprise-Level Onboarding But Churn Quickly From Growth Assistant

“A lot of the stuff that came from Twitter were people who were one to five person companies, You know, solopreneurs, which I don't have anything against solopreneurs, but they would tend to bring someone on. They don't have the time to actually manage them. An…”

Jesse Poogee Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 10:09 How My Company Went From Zero to a $10 Million Run Rate

Disclosure

Growth Assistant Hits $10M Run-Rate With 350 Philippines Employees

“The business is roughly ten million dollars in, in run rate kind of revenue. And we have over 350 people in the Philippines already and over a hundred customers.”

Jesse Poogee Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 3:03 How My Company Went From Zero to a $10 Million Run Rate

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Growth Assistant Marks Up Offshore Staffing Higher Than US Agencies' 30%

“Typically a staffing agency in the United States, if I just find you an engineer, I mark it up 30%. Like our markup is higher than that because we are like identifying really good talent that's so cheap”

Jesse Poogee Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 13:23 How My Company Went From Zero to a $10 Million Run Rate

Insight

Offshore Staffing Experiences Lower Churn Than Traditional Performance Marketing Agencies

“This is less strategic, but it can get as big, but it's just way more sticky. As far as I can tell so far, I'm only two and a half years in, right? But it feels way, way more sticky than Ampush did.”

Jesse Poogee Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 15:43 How My Company Went From Zero to a $10 Million Run Rate

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Growth Assistant's Existing Clients Immediately Absorb All Sourced Overseas Talent

“Right now, the general answer is it's supply-constrained business. If I can find you great, cheap, talented people overseas, you will, the demand, because even our current portfolio, we know every time we have a good person, we say, hey, one of these top 10 cu…”

Jesse Poogee Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 24:43 How My Company Went From Zero to a $10 Million Run Rate

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Growth Assistant's First 20 Customers Were Jesse Pujji's Former Ampush Employees

“Our first 10 to 20 customers were former employees of mine. Right, who worked at Ampush, who then were running growth at DoorDash, or running growth at Careof, or running growth at whatever.”

Jesse Poogee Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 8:09 How My Company Went From Zero to a $10 Million Run Rate

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Growth Assistant Increased Its Top-of-Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Match to 70%

“Today we're probably at 70% ICP in terms of our, the top of our funnel. And maybe a year ago we were at 30%.”

Jesse Poogee Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 11:48 How My Company Went From Zero to a $10 Million Run Rate

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A Single Twitter Thread Generated 400 Initial Leads For Growth Assistant

“We grew to 50 K in MRR, and I wrote a thread on Twitter as, I think I had 8000 followers and I wrote it, and all of a sudden I had 16,000 followers and 400 leads.”

Jesse Poogee Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 19:03 How My Company Went From Zero to a $10 Million Run Rate

Disclosure

Growth Assistant Reached Its Scale Without Meaningful Paid Marketing Spend

“We've never done any paid marketing or any real meaningful paid marketing.”

Jesse Poogee Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 21:57 How My Company Went From Zero to a $10 Million Run Rate

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Pujji: Growth Assistant took customer sales calls before having a website

“We took our first customer sales calls within a month of buying the domain. We didn't even have a website when we took customer calls.”

Jesse Poogee Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 22:50 How My Company Went From Zero to a $10 Million Run Rate

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Pujji: Growth Assistant Output Stalled for Months While Infrastructure Costs Surged

“The reality is the actual output of the business has not increased very much in the last, call it six to eight months, but the costs have gone up a lot.”

Jesse Poogee Oct 16, 2023 ▶ 23:55 How My Company Went From Zero to a $10 Million Run Rate

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
How My Company Went From Zero to a $10 Million Run Rate	Oct 16, 2023	16m

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