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How They Used #1 Product Hunt Launch to Hit $20k+ MRR for Expense Management Tool inside Slack
- ▶ 17:17 Nathan Latka They are effectively expense management inside of Slack. 2 times in the scene
Gong of Japan Hits $20m Revenue with just $15m Raised! Prime Takeover Target?
- ▶ 19:40 Takeshi "TK" Aida Um, I would say Slack. 2 times in the scene
He got 17 customers to pay $80k/yr up from $40k/yr 1 year ago for Employee Onboarding SaaS
- ▶ 19:15 Kieran Menon Uh, I actually love, um, using Slack.
A SaaS founder makes $1m off those NFL highlight clips you see on twitter
- ▶ 1:29 Ari Stavchansky So we built them a Slack chat bot where marketing folks could go in and chat with the bot and then content would be made on the
He acquired a company for under $100k, lead engineer kept 20%, what's his GTM plan?
- ▶ 3:02 Andrew Geisel Slack. 2 times in the scene
The Simple PR Template We Used to Bootstrap to $1m in ARR
- ▶ 7:09 Ben Gabler So naming a startup, you know, it's a screenshot of our Slack conversation.
How I Pivoted From Flat and Unhappy to $6m and High Growth
- ▶ 26:12 Chris Brisson Um, I'll show you guys a Slack example. 6 times in the scene
3 Systems Cookie Information used to grow to 50 employees and a $50M secondary
- ▶ 13:44 unnamed speaker We implemented Slack.
How Vroozi leveraged two internal hackathons last year to achieve $1M new ARR?
How I bootstrapped to $20m in 5 years (and 3 growth channels I used to hit first 100 customers)
- ▶ 21:36 Cody McLain Errors and processes and information that's effectively lost in Slack, email, or phone calls.
Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats
- ▶ 16:56 Massimo Arrigoni We do the same thing, uh, that Pendo does, uh, where we go through those, uh, um, NPS, uh, messages in Slack.
- ▶ 22:21 Massimo Arrigoni So you've probably been there where it's all great, but when, when you hit bumps on the road, when people get pissed, when people, you know, um, short temper, that's where being a remote company, it's challenging because it might be the…
How to build an A+ team to drive 700% growth on a shoestring budget
- ▶ 14:19 Steve Pockross It is the CEO who's on the Slack channel, setting emojis, liking things, and setting up a funny emoji afterwards is going to get you so much credence.
- ▶ 16:51 Steve Pockross But, um, we have a snack budget, but you only get the snack budget if you share what your snack order is on Slack and you eating it.
Copy vFairs Used to Get 1,000+ G2 Reviews and $30M ARR without hiring any outbound sales team
- ▶ 13:39 Muhammad Younas We, leading up to the event, we track everything, you know, not only we just track the product NPS, and again, our Slack channel is pretty much like how, um, the, the CEO of Pandora was showing, you know, we track our product NPS, you…
How he bootstrapped to $45k MRR in under 6 months for Employee Engagement SaaS
- ▶ 8:31 Nathan Latka So Clyde works by notifying your employees of security issues via Slack, which we all use, and gives them step-by-step instructions on how to resolve these issues themselves.
Founder spends $150k/mo on 21 FTE's to build tool that helps your product teams launch
- ▶ 8:05 Derek Osgood To them through email or slack.
$30k in MRR but wouldn't sell for $750k, would you?
- ▶ 18:56 Richard Miles Uh, well, we use Slack, and I, I really like Slack, to be honest.
Mini PE firm grow new acquisition to $2m ARR for gov contracting SaaS
How Tettra hit $1m ARR for its internal knowledge base tool
- ▶ 2:02 Nathan Latka Is, so would you compare this to Slack today or no? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:41 Andy Cook Uh, so at the same time, fortuitously Slack opened up their platform. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:53 Nathan Latka Did the, um, did the Slack fund invest in you guys? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:28 Nathan Latka So you launch on Slack three weeks and you get 500 installs and you use some fake product mockups to really test pricing and you get some kind of people saying, yes, I'd pay for that.
- ▶ 14:21 Andy Cook And then over time, as they add more people or they need more of the pro features, they upgrade over time, like kind of similar to Slack. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:48 Andy Cook Uh, or they're coming in through the Slack app directory and they know that stuff's all over the place in Slack.
- ▶ 17:21 Nathan Latka Guys, tetra.co and internal wiki really got a lot of traction built on top of Slack now today doing about 700,000 dollars in terms of ARR run rate from 535 customers paying on average 110 dollars per month.
How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
- ▶ 5:56 Jason Lemkin Close, close speaker was this guy, Stuart Butterfield, who people had started to use this app Slack, but no one had ever heard a guy like this talk from gaming to SAS, but, but now the world has changed.
- ▶ 20:35 Jason Lemkin They're worth almost three billion front top desk, ten billion.
How she broke $25k MRR SaaS revenue by starting off as an OKR coach
- ▶ 13:03 Nathan Latka Well, I hope let me just ping my team right now on Slack and say, give Vidya an amazing offer.
How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises
- ▶ 21:34 Alex Quilici It's actually Slack now because communication is so critical to the business working, especially when you go remote.
How He Did $100m Secondary but also raised cash to buy a $5m+ ARR Competitor
- ▶ 24:58 Paroon Chadha I'd still say Slack. 4 times in the scene
They Used ProductHunt to Make $60,000 for their New SaaS, 6,000 signups
- ▶ 1:26 Pierre Touzeau We have option one, async written communication, like slack notion and so on.
- ▶ 19:31 Pierre Touzeau Uh, in Slack, email, and so on.
I love these guys. 3 co-Founders bootstrap to $2m in ARR. Beautiful business.
- ▶ 2:30 Raphael Mason Um, it's, uh, first and foremost, a full-featured email client, um, where you can chat with your teammates, just like in Slack, but within each email thread, you get a separate thread to chat, so it keeps things organized and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:10 Nathan Latka Yeah, Missive versus Spark, Missive versus Slack.
What you can learn from Vista Equity's former head of pricing
- ▶ 14:44 Marcos Rivera We use Slack really heavily. 3 times in the scene
She's a 1 person bootstrapped founder with $500k in ARR, here's how she did it
- ▶ 18:33 Melissa Kwan Definitely Slack.
Bootstrapping King: $4m ARR with 6 Person Team, $2.8m Profits
- ▶ 13:46 James O'Neill Um, Slack. 2 times in the scene
950k QR Codes Installed and $1m in Venue Revenue, Digital Seat Closing $5m Series A Now
- ▶ 15:09 Cameron Fowler Probably slack.
How he used community to raise $1m for his Backend as a Service SaaS
- ▶ 14:40 Umit Chokmok I think one of the key tools that we are using in terms of not exactly building, but communicating Slack, we are using extensively for communication and so on, and also the GitHub. 2 times in the scene
He'd sell this side project for $100,000. Is that the right price?
- ▶ 19:42 Adrian Thompson Um, I mean, Slack, honestly, Slack I use in all, all of my ventures so far. 2 times in the scene
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation
- ▶ 25:14 unnamed speaker And I think Slack is a productivity killer if used right.
15 year old launches unique app, breaks $1m revenue, raises $10m
- ▶ 23:36 Mort Fertel Um, we like Slack 2 times in the scene
How he built 10k beta list, used it to raise $3m for new Calendar Tool
- ▶ 6:25 Jeremy Bell It's all, it's all built in, um, it's a custom thing that, that I built using Zapier and Slack.
Typeform Breaks $75m Revenue, How the Founder Structures R&D Team of 2 To Build Fast, Launch new Products
- ▶ 2:35 Nathan Latka You're seeing sort of slack out in the bottom left.
Skiff is Privacy Focused Notion, Breaks $60m Valuation, 10k MAU's
- ▶ 19:53 Andrew Milich And like many of us are just members of those communities, either like, you know, security conferences or Slack communities on privacy or R slash privacy. 2 times in the scene
Congrats! Bootstrapped founder hits $5m
- ▶ 11:01 Nathan Latka If it's a sales hire, you've got to onboard them to Salesforce or Slack.
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how
- ▶ 19:11 Godard Abel Like Slack has been number one on G-II for many years. 3 times in the scene
3 things this $2m revenue bootstrapper would do differently
- ▶ 13:26 Nathan Latka If it's a sales hire, you've got to onboard them to Salesforce or Slack.
He's Making $100k/mo Helping Construction Companies Rent out their Idle Pieces of Equipment
- ▶ 20:23 Benedict Eicher My favorite online tool for building FlexCabo, uh, I would say for me, it's a Slack, um, because communication is key.
She Fled the Syrian War Then Raised $1m, Fraud AI Tool now Worth $10m
- ▶ 10:10 Nathan Latka If it's a sales hire, you've got to onboard them to Salesforce or Slack.
5000 Building Owners Manage Jobs Using This Vendor Management Tool
- ▶ 20:58 Emil Brill I mean, look, I think, uh, especially when you think about the remote world, Slack has just been fundamental.
Founder of $6m SaaS Pingboard Replaces Himself as CEO To Grow Faster
- ▶ 15:03 unnamed speaker Think about not only employees networking with one another and learning who's who and what's their picture and where's the org chart, what are their interests, their likes, but also, um, recognition and giving applause and integrating with…
Language Optimization SaaS Hits $23k MRR in 6 Months, 9 FTE's, $3m Valuation
- ▶ 14:53 Nadia Fischer Oh, um, Slack.
Full Stack Permissions as a Service Launches, $6m in Fresh Capital to Buy Time
Supermetrics Does $4.3m in March, $51.7m Run Rate Helping Marketers Get All The Data They Need
- ▶ 16:36 Mikael Thuneberg For instance, we just released a slack connector just to see like MVP to fed slack data. 2 times in the scene
Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back
Look Back at $100m Salesloft Before Vista Deal
- ▶ 11:04 Kyle Porter So when you think of companies like Slack and Zoom, incredible businesses, but they're replacing old ways of doing the same thing, right?
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
- ▶ 11:34 Nathan Latka What it is, is they set up a Slack channel for you full of designers.
- ▶ 21:14 James Isilay Um, I also Slack actually, Gong and Slack.
- ▶ 23:37 Nathan Latka Additionally, if you want to take this conversation deeper and further, we have by far the largest private Slack community for B to B SaaS platforms. 2 times in the scene
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?
- ▶ 4:14 Nathan Latka Slack doesn't work.
- ▶ 20:41 Candice Faktor It's actually quite complex for people to, to sort of piece together a hop in with a slack with a, you know, curriculum tool.
- ▶ 23:25 Candice Faktor Well, uh, Slack went down yesterday, and I was mind blown about as to how much of an essential tool that is for our remote first team. 3 times in the scene
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?
- ▶ 19:22 Dan LaCivita Uh, the huddle feature in Slack.
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation
- ▶ 7:58 Luke Feeney It's like a, it's like a little bit of a slack model there.
The Next Redfin? Real Estate Broker SaaS hits $2.4m Revenue, $50m Valuation
- ▶ 25:09 Nathan Latka Figma, Trello, Slack, Zoom? 2 times in the scene
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next
- ▶ 18:54 Shaunak Roy Slack.
AI Powered Internal Search Tool Grows 200%, Breaks $1m Run Rate, $15m Valuation in 2020
- ▶ 15:32 Nathan Latka A tool, a tool that you use, like a, like a tool, uh, like Google Docs or, uh, Slack, Twillie, HubSpot, favorite online tool that you use. 2 times in the scene
B2B Hardware Plus SaaS Business Breaks $4.5m in Sales Volume, Super Sticky SaaS Revenues
- ▶ 21:42 Marcos Kern Probably end up with Slack because it's just a nice communication tool.
Security SaaS Hits $1m ARR, $70m+ valuation on $15m Series A
- ▶ 10:45 Nathan Latka If it's a sales hire, you've got to onboard them to Salesforce or Slack.
Restaurant SaaS Pivots From Marketplace, Hits $50k in MRR, Raising $7m Now
- ▶ 8:03 Nathan Latka If it's a sales hire, you've got to onboard them to Salesforce or Slack.
VR Builder SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Targeting $10m Series A Now
- ▶ 16:14 Kevin Cornish Uh, Slack.
His SaaS Will Be Huge Because of $1m+ Agency With Ready To Go Customers
- ▶ 7:46 Nathan Latka If it's a sales hire, you've got to onboard them to Salesforce or Slack.
6k Freelancers Use Xolo To Run Their Business, $5.5m Revenue, Raising $20m Now
- ▶ 18:49 Allan Martinson Oh, it's most likely communication tools, like Slack. 2 times in the scene
Profitable SaaS Hits $100m Revenue, $1.7b Valuation in Digital Identity Space
- ▶ 18:59 Steve Munford Yeah, I, listen, we are a big user of Slack, and I think it's just a great tool for us.
29 Year Old Bootstraps to $2.4m Revenue, $1m+ in Profits
- ▶ 19:47 Tyler Austin Um, the tool we use the most is Slack, so I'm just going to say Slack.
ZenBusiness Breaks $45m Revenue Relentlessly Focusing on 220,000 Underserved Owners of Service Businesses
- ▶ 26:22 Ross Buhrdorf I would have to say, though, I think I didn't say it last time is, you know, Slack. 2 times in the scene
300% YoY Growth, $1.5m Revenue Now Helping Dev Teams Manage Output
- ▶ 11:01 Hirsch Tapadia And we work with them through Slack and Microsoft Teams and all these chat tools.
Bootstrapper Does $25m Round with Secondary Building Future of Email Marketing for Enterprise Teams
- ▶ 27:37 Pierce Eugenwale Yeah, let's say, um, hey, you know, we can run our business without slack, and they're great customer-averse.
Zero to $800k in 5 Months, Advertising Attribution Platform Incrmntal Breaks 24 Customers
- ▶ 12:10 Nathan Latka So any, any feature requests, you just stick it in Slack.
Cargamos Does Last Mile Delivery in Mexico, Breaks $12m Revenue, Raising $30m Now
- ▶ 20:14 Ivan Ariza Uh, Slack.
Founder Invests $20k Personally, Now $36k MRR, 6 CPG Brand Customers Using for Sampling
- ▶ 8:20 Nathan Latka When you're onboarding new team members, they need things like their email set up or to get onboarded to Trello or to get access to the Salesforce account or the Slack account.
RentRedi Lands 5,000 Landlords as It Cracks $2m in Revenue and 3+ Product Lines
- ▶ 12:09 Nathan Latka When you're onboarding new team members, they need things like their email set up or to get onboarded to Trello or to get access to the Salesforce account or the Slack account.
Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now
- ▶ 11:07 Ellie Schleifer We're finding, uh, engineers, uh, traditional means of just, like, you know, talking about what we're doing to our friends and, you know, colleagues, but also going on to Discord channels, Slack community groups, being like, hey, is anyone…
100% YoY Growth to $1.5m ARR Today Helping Brands Unlock Consumer Data With Rewards
- ▶ 19:18 Anik Clary Um, I honestly really, really like Slack mainly because of all of the integrations that we have. 2 times in the scene
Is Reclaim the Next Calendly? 16,000 Users Keep Using Every Month, up 400% YoY
- ▶ 3:52 Henry Shapiro You're probably creating even more work for yourself because now you've got like people pinging you on Slack and saying, Hey, there's no time on your calendar.
- ▶ 13:40 Henry Shapiro Uh, Slack channel where a number of folks basically, uh, mix, uh, mix, uh, mix, um, uh, keeps going to say mix panel, mix max, excuse me, uh, calendly, a number of other calendar services hang out in there.
Topia Hosted Virtual Burning Man in 2020, Now Paying Artists to Create Digital Worlds, 4k Conversations per Week
- ▶ 12:39 Nathan Latka When you're onboarding new team members, they need things like their email set up or to get onboarded to Trello or to get access to the Salesforce account or the Slack account.
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation
- ▶ 14:10 Tavi Tamiste Slack, definitely.
Norby Is SMS and Email all in One, Raises $4m at $20m Valuation
- ▶ 5:56 Nick Gerard Maybe they have a slack or something like that.
400% YoY Growth HIPPA Compliant ChatBot Breaks $60k MRR, $15m Valuation
- ▶ 18:03 Rebecca Clyde I mean, it has to be Slack probably.
Tribe Hits $2.4m ARR, 300% Yoy Growth, $42m Valuation Helping Businesses Manage Their Communities
- ▶ 3:05 Siavash Mahmudian So again, because we are a platform, the good thing about it is that somebody else can come and build an app on top of Tribe and say, like, I want to integrate, like, your audience on Slack or Twitter and bring it to this community…
Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans
Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five
- ▶ 13:58 David Yang We are the only company in the world, probably, at least I don't know anyone else, who connects system to, uh, collaboration, uh, uh, sources like Microsoft Teams, Select, Jira, GitHub, and other collaboration circles.
Billion Dollar SaaS Founders Rely on This Secret Sales Strategy
- ▶ 9:17 Garrett Mehrguth If they say no, we can put them into like a Slack community or some type of bridge where they can still interact with the brand, even though they're not ready to buy.
Zoom Teleprompter For Sales People Hits $1k MRR in 30 Days After Spending $8k on MVP
- ▶ 6:01 Robin Singh You know, I posted messages on Slack groups and stuff like that. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:09 Nathan Latka So moving forward, you're targeting Slack groups, you're testing some other stuff, six customers today.
Can Mode Beat Looker? 140% Net Dollar Retention and 600+ Customers Say Yes!
- ▶ 35:54 Derek Steer Which like could not possibly be better branding, but he was recommended to me by another founder in like a Slack channel that I belong to.
A PE Firm Should Buy This $7m ARR Company Stuck Inside a Publicly Traded Firm
- ▶ 16:45 Massimo Arrigoni Um, so, um, Slack a lot.