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Founder stuck at $8m revenue, burning $400k/month shares Profit and Loss, How he turned things around with Proposify CEO Kyle Racki
- ▶ 6:00 Kyle Racki You know, the customers who bought Proposify to send beautiful proposals and get faster sign-off, that messaging didn't really resonate with the mid-market, because they're like, we have cool PowerPoint decks, like, we know how to send…
How We Bootstrapped Backblaze from $0 to IPO and $87m in ARR
- ▶ 1:03 Gleb Budman There's gonna be no PowerPoints.
Don't do these 68 things in your SaaS company
- ▶ 21:49 Anand Sanwal You can put the PowerPoints together.
How Vroozi leveraged two internal hackathons last year to achieve $1M new ARR?
$100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation
- ▶ 3:22 Matt Prados I'm actually in, um, PowerPoint jail right now.
1 Employee, $600k ARR, How He's Scaling with Systems for Marketing Collateral SaaS
- ▶ 0:46 Nathan Latka He's the founder today of Clatter, a creative automation SaaS platform, enabling large businesses to create branded PowerPoint presentations, microsites, and marketing collateral in minutes.
- ▶ 4:26 Josh Newman So using the PowerPoint builder example, they're using us from a full service model.
- ▶ 4:53 Josh Newman So it started in 2019 and actually started with a bespoke model where we, super long story short, chief marketing officer of one of the largest divisions of this particular customer came to me and just said, Josh, we've got thousands of…
$20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
- ▶ 13:31 Nathan Latka Was it a PowerPoint? 2 times in the scene
How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
- ▶ 6:22 Jon Darbyshire So I went to EDS with a little three and a half inch diskette for those of you that remember diskettes had an HTML version that basically was a PowerPoint that showed all the different screens and how things would, would look.
He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him
- ▶ 1:31 Mark Abbott So you've got papers, and Excel, and PowerPoints, and you're just trying to get your act together, and you're working like dogs, just trying to get, make things happen, right?
FreightWaves Hits $30m Revenue, Spends No Money on CAC, Media Business Winning
- ▶ 21:02 Craig Fuller I had a PowerPoint presentation and that's all I had.
How LearnWorlds Broke 4,500 Customers, $6m ARR Helping Course Creators Launch
- ▶ 16:31 Panos Shozos That the business that wants to train 400 employees will get them into a hotel for five hours of PowerPoint.
DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster
- ▶ 0:00 Tony Urban So our largest customers having, like, 202 150,000 PowerPoint users.
- ▶ 2:07 Tony Urban So our largest customers having like, 202 150,000 PowerPoint users. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:48 Tony Urban They do a plugin for PowerPoint, which helps you making, um, data charts faster.
Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?
- ▶ 7:46 Soumya Murthy The industry's problem, because here's a two, a big thing that was not happening in the industry, Nathan, the industry stalwarts or incumbent, um, software companies, not innovating, taking an 18% plus support dollars, literally showing up…
FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised
- ▶ 4:37 Leslie Eccles I had a PowerPoint deck.
FundThrough Hits $240m in Invoices Advanced to 2k+ Founders
- ▶ 15:58 Steven Uster Well, so it was a bit of a hope and a dream and a PowerPoint presentation with a little bit of traction. 2 times in the scene
Trakto Hits $30k MRR With Canva Competitor. Can They Hit $1m ARR?
- ▶ 7:07 Paulo Tenório Create, like, a marketing campaign, and with one push, like, ah, some guy that manages a small school in some other part of Brazil, they're able to access immediately that file that prior to Tracto was using Photoshop or, like, PowerPoint…
VaporWare Charges $25k to Build SaaS MVP, $1.2m 2019 Revenue
- ▶ 16:37 Nathan Latka They will help you get your SAS MVP sort of launched, especially if you're targeted on learning sort of one thing, uh, or kind of think that almost like a PowerPoint deck, but on serious steroids as it actually works.
BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped
- ▶ 2:01 Sagar Kokakar So, um, billbooks has an aim basically to, uh, simplify invoicing, uh, because, uh, everyone, um, I started, uh, freelancing and started my own company at the age of 2000, uh, 19, in, uh, year 2000, and what I felt was in 2005, until 2005,…
NoteAffect MVP Cost $1.6m, Founder Bootstrapping Using Cash From Last Exit
- ▶ 4:38 Jay Tokosch So it could be a PowerPoint, it could be a web presentation, it could be off of a smart board, um, could be generated by, you know, some other product like Adobe.
Get More People to Take Your Online Course w/ Gamification, Solo Founder, $100k in ARR
- ▶ 3:32 Nathan Latka I had my next 10 lesson plans done, which include a six point PowerPoint for each class. 3 times in the scene
1732 Why Is He "Waiting" To Drive Sales?
- ▶ 3:25 Nathan Latka Usually I'll send you a PowerPoint ahead of time, you'll look through it, and maybe I'll have my iPad on the table in front of us when we meet in person.
1339 $3m ARR Org Chart Company CEO Uses "Touch Zero" Operating Model to Manage Cash
- ▶ 2:13 Bill Boebel Everybody can still build org charts in PowerPoint and Visio.
- ▶ 2:22 Nathan Latka I mean, when I do an org chart before a board meeting, I jump into like, I create some rectangles in a like sketch mock-up, and I put some people's names in it, and I copy into my, my PowerPoint file, and boom, there's my org chart. 2 times in the scene
1330 This Professor Quit Higher Ed For Learning Management Platform, $24m in ARR
- ▶ 0:00 Nathan Latka He started off kind of, you know, teaching, obviously, courses, a guest lecturer, needed a way to give PowerPoint presentations out.
- ▶ 2:27 Claudio Erba Well, the funny story is that Docebo was born as a software because my students needed something to download my PowerPoint presentation after the lesson.
- ▶ 15:18 Nathan Latka He started off kind of, you know, teaching, obviously, courses, a guest lecturer, needed a way to give PowerPoint presentations out, then people started saying, once he open sourced it, they said, we want to buy this thing, so he drew up…
1318 He's flat, cash flow positive, moving freemium, will his tests turn the ship?
- ▶ 13:59 Jose Cayasso So we, we were the only presentation platform, the only premium presentation platform out there, all the others, even PowerPoint properties, a premium product, but it comes on your computer, right?
- ▶ 19:12 Jose Cayasso Google Docs, we inevitably get compared with PowerPoint. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:44 Nathan Latka Because it's expensive to compete with Google and PowerPoint.
1261 How He Went from $0 to $4k/mo Helping Brands Track Customer Facing Video
- ▶ 1:52 Shai Wolkomir Uh, what we've done is we created a format that lives somewhere between a classic presentation or, uh, you know, a PowerPoint deck and a video.
1234 How He Bootstrapped to $160m in ARR in HR Space
1194 Screenrecord Testing Tool Hits $1m+ in ARR, Under 2% Logo Churn Monthly
- ▶ 6:08 Florian Dorfbauer They're writing us emails and sending PowerPoint presentations with blah, kill me.
1167 How FloQast Grew 300% YoY to $8m ARR Selling to Accounting Teams
- ▶ 6:43 Mike Whitmire It was just me and a PowerPoint and I was showing them, walking them through everything and they, they go, you know, this is great.
1136 Outreach.io CEO: "We'll hit $10m/quarter in 2018" with focus on ARPU expansion
- ▶ 26:03 Manny Medina I don't do, I don't do PowerPoints.
1126 How Gong Hit $1m+ in ARR in 1st Year
- ▶ 9:39 Amit Bendov So I started even, uh, when I said that all we had was a chart, I mean, that was a PowerPoint tech.
1122 Sales Tech CEO "We've Passed $30m in ARR", 70% yoy growth
- ▶ 2:48 Nathan Latka We have like, 10,000 PowerPoints created over, you know, two, three years in the beginning of a company, and we never know where we store them, or what worked in terms of closing a sale, or whatnot, and when we need them today, we don't…
1108 Minneapolis Sales Tech: "We're past $30m in ARR, will raise this year"
- ▶ 2:52 Nathan Latka So just to be clear, can we think of this almost like a big storage container for all the PowerPoints and all the sales material, whether, whatever the location is, the places, whatever, whoever the sales rep is, and they can essentially…
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?
- ▶ 13:31 Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer Um, I, uh, I ended up raising it off of a, uh, showing them a PowerPoint deck, showing them the, the working product in the marketplace.
1053 Me: Did You Sell To Vista for $250m? CEO:"Your math astute"
- ▶ 9:56 Jared Schrieber And the end deliverable is kind of an executive ready PowerPoint presentation of our findings from doing that survey and what we would recommend around it. 2 times in the scene
905 Went Public, $650m Market Cap, Crashed, Now $10m ARR But Only $1.8m Market Cap, Why?
- ▶ 22:48 Peter Friedman They're thinking about how the PowerPoint's going to look, what are they going to look like?
826: AdTech: Bootstrapped to $1m-$10m With 20% EBIDTA Margin
- ▶ 14:20 Christian Geissendoerfer The concept in a few PowerPoint slides.
794: SaaS: How He Used Pizza to Hit $7.5m in ARR and $18m Raised for his Lead Scoring Tool
- ▶ 8:05 Evan Liang So, uh, we went on day one, two guys in a PowerPoint. 2 times in the scene
750: How to 3x Customer Revenue, Be More Than Just Document Signing
- ▶ 5:51 Nathan Latka They're almost like a PowerPoint, but it's like, if you're an agency listening to this episode right now, you could go in there, create like your, your pitch template.
746: Bill Gates Was Great to Work With, But This Founder Wanted His Own Thing
- ▶ 17:48 Nathan Latka With 1.5 million dollars in revenue, are you going to gonna replace PowerPoint?
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?
- ▶ 0:14 Nathan Latka Folks are switching from things like PowerPoint and really engaging with his software.
- ▶ 2:23 Jose Cayasso Um, mostly PowerPoint, uh, but we do have some, you know, former Prezi people, uh, that also, you know, are looking for a more efficient way to do it.
- ▶ 8:07 Jose Cayasso Um, you know, we, we competing in SEO with, you know, with our competitors, Prezi PowerPoint is very hard.
- ▶ 16:36 Nathan Latka Folks are switching from things like PowerPoint and really engaging with his software.
744: Companies Pay Her $10-100k to Text Customers Funny Messages
- ▶ 1:05 Nathan Latka Jose Cayazo joins us and with 1.5 million dollars in revenue, the simple question I have is, hey, Jose, are you the new PowerPoint?
737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m
- ▶ 10:10 Nathan Latka Or did you test putting his face on the PowerPoint slide and see what the valuation increase would be?
726: This $500k/mo+ Entrepreneur Says Key is Minimizing Expenses
- ▶ 9:49 Heather Marie It was pre-Monster, yeah, and then, um, but I was there from the time it was a PowerPoint and, um, led sales and business development and account management and sales ops, you know, it was kind of a team of one for a while, then…
721: 543 Upvotes Got Him on HackerNews Front Page
- ▶ 2:09 Owen Sadeghpour So, for example, we had a PowerPoint pitch deck that we had over 200,000 people download, and the people that download it for free get certain color themes, but the members that join our paid service called Plus, and it's really only five,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:07 Owen Sadeghpour So the PowerPoint deck hit both.
EP 585: CaliberMinds Raises $1.1M Helping 12 Customers Close B2B Leads Using More Intelligence with CEO Raviv Turner
- ▶ 5:34 Raviv Turner You need to understand people on all different level, which usually involves doing things like persona development, journey mapping, contextual observation, customer interviews, um, and then you just end up with tons of text, and maybe…
EP 533: $1.5M Raised, $100k MRR Helping 800 Customers Manage and Track Documents with CEO Tim Samulet
- ▶ 3:30 Tim Saumet (Tim Salme) It's any kind of, any kind of documents, PDF, Word, PowerPoint, uh, video, Prezi.
EP 530: Shut Down $2m Business, Why with CEO Shawn Livermore
- ▶ 7:37 Sean Livermore Who later, his name was Stan, and he later jumped in as an actual co-founder to kind of help us get the thing off the ground, and then we, you know, did a couple thousand dollars of revenue in that pivot, and we moved from any sort of… 2 times in the scene
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry
- ▶ 6:53 Nathan Latka So it is, is it just a pure Google hangout where you're screen sharing up PowerPoint?
EP 424: SaaS Teckst Passes 65 Enterprise Customers, $2.5M Raised with CEO Matt Tumbleson
- ▶ 17:01 Nathan Latka You have on the big, you know, PowerPoint slide, you know, the big number you guys hit this year in terms of revenue and everyone's popping champagne and celebrating.
EP 389: ConceptDrop Raises $1.1M, Helps You Get Creative Work Done Quick with Phil Alexander EP389
- ▶ 1:58 Phil Alexander Through a series of advanced algorithms and integrations to everyday software, like PowerPoint, for instance.
- ▶ 4:37 Phil Alexander So we started as just an overnight design service for PowerPoint, and we really kind of brought in our scope and our offering over the last couple of years, launching our marketplace in 2015.
EP 384: $105k on 1 Facebook Live, The New Webinar with Carissa Hill Ep 384
- ▶ 5:54 Nathan Latka Like, was she just talking her face, or did she use PowerPoint sites?
- ▶ 11:15 Nathan Latka And so do you put up a PowerPoint slide that says go to this link to buy?
Moms Secret Accounting Weapon, Growing Business, and 2 Year Old Son, Ep 303: Beth Milligan
- ▶ 3:15 Beth Milligan Maybe she wants a PowerPoint presentation done for a speaking engagement.
He's Taken No Funding, Doing $2,600,000 Per Year With SaaS Business Webinar Ninja, EP 252: Omar Zenhom
- ▶ 14:09 Omar Zenhom Uh, whether it's putting a lesson together with a PowerPoint slides and all that stuff.
This Media Agency Does $6m in Revenue with 32 Employees With Matt Weinberg of Vector Media Group EP 211
- ▶ 9:55 Nathan Latka You know, it was six slides in a PowerPoint.