agency

“Many times, SaaS businesses that go and become very big, their infancy is from an agency, which is the cash cow. The agency gets to see into clients' problems, and they realize every client has the same problem.”

“Agency is an incredible place. I, when I talk to young entrepreneurs that are, you know, they feel like I want to do a business. I don't know what it is. You know, I often will tell them, you know, go do services work for a while. Somebody is going to bring yo…”

“I think it's a danger of an agency when you have a charismatic leaders, you can only be in so many places at once.”

“Something that I actually would recommend is just bringing a new agency in house every, every year or two.”

“So if we don't have our own agency, we don't know the pain. So we'll have to suffering all that to make the sense really perfect for our own agency to use.”

“The largest SaaS companies today, they usually start as some form of agency and they slowly morph into a more predictable software oriented solution.”

“From what I've seen, at least a glaring pattern is a successful agency spins out successful tech because they've got a built-in base.”

“First thing is you spend all this time making yourself indispensable. Then if you want to do this, you need to make yourself dispensable. You have to do the opposite.”

“The money you make as an agency is indifferent from the results you drive for clients. And they're usually not correlated because the quickest way to make money in the agency is you just kill your people. Essentially, you just increase your capacity, but that …”

“This is like by far the number one theme from successful SaaS founders is starting as an agency.”

“And we obviously didn't you know, didn't raise any money or et cetera, because we had, you know, we had the agency that can finance that.”