Forrest Zeisler

14 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 5, 2025 by Forrest Zeisler · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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May 5, 2025 bullish
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Jobber acquired more customers last month than its first 7.5 years combined
“Last month we made more new customers than we did in the first seven and a half years of the business put together in one month.”
Forrest Zeisler May 5, 2025 ▶ 46:15 1 year in he had just 3 customers—today he’s at $100M ARR. | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobbe... · PMF Show
May 5, 2025 positive
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Jobber co-founders independently pitched investor Boris Wirtz in the exact same week
“The one week I went and pitched Boris Wirtz from OSN or from version one capital. And it turns out Sam had independently in Edmonton working his network and connections, got intro to Boris and went and pitched Boris in the same week, the exact same business.”
Forrest Zeisler May 5, 2025 ▶ 29:22 1 year in he had just 3 customers—today he’s at $100M ARR. | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobbe... · PMF Show
May 5, 2025 neutral
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Jobber faced six months of continuous rejections from prospective early customers
“Every couple of days talking to a business, showing them our product and hearing the word no.”
Forrest Zeisler May 5, 2025 ▶ 11:29 1 year in he had just 3 customers—today he’s at $100M ARR. | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobbe... · PMF Show
May 5, 2025 positive
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Founders convinced Lawnsite.com to create a custom $200 monthly ad tier
“They saw our situation, took pity on us and actually like created a brand new marketing tier for the smallest You know, like 10 pixels by five pixel style ad. It's stuck in the very bottom corner of the forum just to make us advertisers. I want to say it was 2…”
Forrest Zeisler May 5, 2025 ▶ 18:45 1 year in he had just 3 customers—today he’s at $100M ARR. | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobbe... · PMF Show
May 5, 2025
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Jobber raised a $25,000 family round to pay founders $2,000 monthly
“No, like 25,000. And put it all in a bank account. And then Sam and I just took 2000 dollars out each month to help cover our bills.”
Forrest Zeisler May 5, 2025 ▶ 17:13 1 year in he had just 3 customers—today he’s at $100M ARR. | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobbe... · PMF Show
May 5, 2025
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Jobber took over two years and five employees to reach 100 customers
“I want to say it took about two and a half years to get our, maybe two years, two and a half years, somewhere in there to get to our 100th customer. We were five employees back then.”
Forrest Zeisler May 5, 2025 ▶ 42:57 1 year in he had just 3 customers—today he’s at $100M ARR. | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobbe... · PMF Show
May 5, 2025
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Jobber's early bootstrap servers were funded on Zeisler's wife's credit card
“Our servers are being run off my wife's credit card. She was the only one with a job amongst us.”
Forrest Zeisler May 5, 2025 ▶ 16:36 1 year in he had just 3 customers—today he’s at $100M ARR. | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobbe... · PMF Show
May 5, 2025
Insight
Most startups fail due to founder conflict, which written plans help prevent
“Most startups fail due to founder conflict. Having things written down creates a lot of alignment.”
Forrest Zeisler May 5, 2025 ▶ 27:18 1 year in he had just 3 customers—today he’s at $100M ARR. | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobbe... · PMF Show
May 5, 2025
Insight
Founders must reject bespoke feature requests not serving 80% of the market
“It is so dangerous to go chasing features. A really important thing is having a vision for where it's going to end up. And anything that people are asking for that is on the path that you had previously envisioned that you is like, wow, that makes sense for 80…”
Forrest Zeisler May 5, 2025 ▶ 12:02 1 year in he had just 3 customers—today he’s at $100M ARR. | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobbe... · PMF Show
May 5, 2025
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After one year, Jobber had only three customers paying $29 a month
“Now here we are a year in and we have three users paying us 29 bucks a month.”
Forrest Zeisler May 5, 2025 ▶ 16:22 1 year in he had just 3 customers—today he’s at $100M ARR. | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobbe... · PMF Show
May 5, 2025
Disclosure
Jobber founders initially aimed for just $8,000 in monthly recurring revenue
“And we actually, we put it on a piece of paper as we were brainstorming and thinking about our aspirations for the business, that our goal was to hit 8000 dollars of monthly recurring revenue. 3000 for him, 3000 for me, a thousand for the servers and a thousan…”
Forrest Zeisler May 5, 2025 ▶ 6:59 1 year in he had just 3 customers—today he’s at $100M ARR. | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobbe... · PMF Show
May 5, 2025 neutral
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Jobber founders created a 55-page business plan to raise $250,000 seed funding
“At this point, we have a 55 page business plan to raise 250,000 dollars of seed investment.”
Forrest Zeisler May 5, 2025 ▶ 25:15 1 year in he had just 3 customers—today he’s at $100M ARR. | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobbe... · PMF Show
May 5, 2025 neutral
Insight
SMB vertical SaaS vendors compete directly against owners' personal credit card expenses
“There's almost never a silver bullet. There's, you're selling the software to the people who are using the software, right? You are competing against their personal credit cards, right? Like it's their money. And they're saying they're Buying groceries, buying…”
Forrest Zeisler May 5, 2025 ▶ 47:21 1 year in he had just 3 customers—today he’s at $100M ARR. | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobbe... · PMF Show
May 5, 2025 neutral
Insight
Jobber never experienced a viral inflection point or a single silver bullet
“Now I know looking back, we never hit a silver bullet. As a founder, you keep expecting there to be a silver bullet, right? You know, you're trying all these new things every day. It's like, you just need one of them to really hit wood. Everything will change …”
Forrest Zeisler May 5, 2025 ▶ 50:06 1 year in he had just 3 customers—today he’s at $100M ARR. | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobbe... · PMF Show
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