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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q How did you support yourself in terms of like paying a salary and building a team between 2004 and 2014?
A Yeah, in fact, uh, interestingly, within a couple of years, uh, we were, uh, profitable. So early on in the VTiger, uh, we had customers, larger customers like Nokia and, uh, Even when it was open source. Yeah, in fact, when it was open source, we had customers who were using it on premise, and they were engaging with us to customize it, and, and that was where we were getting, uh, kind of big large pieces of money to customize it, and we had, and it was actually working out great, and we were profitable, and within a couple of years, from 2006 onwards, it was self-sustained, um, but then we realized about 80% of the work we were doing was Kind of going into for that customer and for this customer and for that customer. Yeah.
AI assessment note: “they were engaging with us to customize it, and that was where we were getting”
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D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q So what is, what is VTiger and how do you make money?
A Yeah, so vTiger is actually a SaaS based CRM player, and we started out back in 2004. So vTiger actually started out as an open source project, and in 2000, uh, around 10, we shifted to the SaaS business model, and our, most of our, uh, Customer base is SMBs, and we actually have a, so, kind of, our mission is to really enable and empower people to thrive, and when we say people, we are kind of more focused on the front office of players in businesses, and within SMBs, the people who are working with customers from marketing to sales to support, Uh, and we are very much focused on those three functions and trying to see how we can really make their, uh, uh, basically work more exciting and make it more, uh, interesting for them and, uh, provide something in terms of data and other things.
AI assessment note: “vTiger is actually a SaaS based CRM player... shifted to the SaaS business model”
