Chris Federspiel

5 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 28, 2023 by Chris Federspiel · across every show →

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Apr 28, 2023
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Federspiel: Blackthorn expanded to nine apps before pruning back to two
“We went from two to nine apps and back to two, so just be weary of chasing shiny things.”
Chris Federspiel Apr 28, 2023 ▶ 16:08 Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue
Apr 28, 2023
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Blackthorn funded its first 10 employees with $1M in services revenue
“You can see over the first few years, we were doing about a million a year of ProServe. That was paying for about 10 of us to work there”
Chris Federspiel Apr 28, 2023 ▶ 4:27 Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue
Apr 28, 2023
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Federspiel: Treat SaaS partnerships like hiring and cut underperformers quickly
“There's like the hire, slow, fire, fast kind of thing. For people, it is the same thing for partnerships.”
Chris Federspiel Apr 28, 2023 ▶ 15:47 Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue
Apr 28, 2023
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Federspiel: Blackthorn has 630 customers and processed $3B in transaction volume
“We have about 630 customers. We've processed about three billion bucks through the app, and we sent thirty-one million SMS messages, which is Twilio is the underlying technology here.”
Chris Federspiel Apr 28, 2023 ▶ 14:28 Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue
Apr 28, 2023 negative
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Federspiel: A software company cannot scale selling a $3,000 product
“So if you have to have a go to market cadence where you're selling a three K product, you can't scale your company.”
Chris Federspiel Apr 28, 2023 ▶ 4:50 Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue
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