Passageways Still Uses QuickBooks for Billing at 1,000-Customer Scale
Paroon Chadha · 1569 Why 1000+ Boarddecks Get Manged Using This $7m ARR Tool · Nov 10, 2019 · at 14:50
Parun Chadha is the co-founder and CEO of SaaS company Passageways, discussing the company's internal software stack at over $7 million in ARR.
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“We're still using QuickBooks.”
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