Andrew Geisel

CEO & Co-Founder, Planleave · 1 appearance on the record.

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Geisel has over two decades of enterprise software and alliances experience, having worked with companies such as PeopleSoft, Oracle, and Accenture. In 2022, he acquired the SaaS leave-management platform Planleave via MicroAcquire, later founding North America Entry to guide international software and AI companies entering the U.S. market.

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Opinion
Geisel: Long-tail search terms like vacation tracking are not competitive
“And if you start going below lead management, go into vacation trackers, time off trackers. It's not that competitive at all. Be very candid.”
Andrew Geisel Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 11:59 He acquired a company for under $100k, lead engineer kept 20%, what's his GTM plan?
Disclosure
Geisel: PlanLeave is focusing most of its budget and attention on SEO
“SEO to be very candid. That's where most of the money's focused right now. And that's where most of the attention is focused.”
Andrew Geisel Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 10:37 He acquired a company for under $100k, lead engineer kept 20%, what's his GTM plan?
Disclosure
Geisel acquired his stake in PlanLeave for less than $100,000
“No, it wasn't more than six figures.”
Andrew Geisel Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 5:55 He acquired a company for under $100k, lead engineer kept 20%, what's his GTM plan?
Disclosure
Geisel acquired an 80 percent equity stake in PlanLeave
“It ended up being 80%.”
Andrew Geisel Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 6:01 He acquired a company for under $100k, lead engineer kept 20%, what's his GTM plan?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
PlanLeave was virtually pre-revenue when Geisel acquired the company
“Pre-revenue, except for the company in Spain, so very little revenue, to be very candid.”
Andrew Geisel Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 6:29 He acquired a company for under $100k, lead engineer kept 20%, what's his GTM plan?
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Geisel: Cameo in Spain Uses PlanLeave for Leave Tracking
“Cameo over in Spain uses the application, and they basically have for the employees, so they set up all their employees, we have a mass invite link to send out to all your employees, they log into the system, they have their own scaled-down dashboard specific …”
Andrew Geisel Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 2:33 He acquired a company for under $100k, lead engineer kept 20%, what's his GTM plan?
Disclosure
Geisel: PlanLeave charges $1.99 per employee per month starting at 30 seats
“Yeah, so we charge my employee, dollar nine, nine cents, basically. We start at a month or a year. Per, per month. Sorry. Yeah. We started at 30 employees.”
Andrew Geisel Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 4:01 He acquired a company for under $100k, lead engineer kept 20%, what's his GTM plan?
Disclosure
Geisel: PlanLeave paid for a top-five directory placement on Capterra
“It's actually Kaptara specific. I paid for top five placement.”
Andrew Geisel Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 16:58 He acquired a company for under $100k, lead engineer kept 20%, what's his GTM plan?
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Geisel: PlanLeave aims for at least 56 new clients monthly
“Essentially what I want to accomplish ideally is once we get the machine going is get it to at a minimum 14 clients per week, 15, 30, 45, 60, what, 50, 56 clients per month and so on.”
Andrew Geisel Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 18:48 He acquired a company for under $100k, lead engineer kept 20%, what's his GTM plan?
Disclosure
Geisel: PlanLeave will remain bootstrapped for now
“I'm going to bootstrap it for now.”
Andrew Geisel Nov 26, 2022 ▶ 19:26 He acquired a company for under $100k, lead engineer kept 20%, what's his GTM plan?

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
He acquired a company for under $100k, lead engineer kept 20%, what's his GTM plan? Nov 26, 2022 9m
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