Indico founders drove all enterprise sales until early 2021
Slater Victoroff · Process Automation SaaS: From $600k Pivot to 300% YoY Growth, How Indico Turned the Corner · Jun 3, 2021 · at 18:37
Slater Viktoroff, founder and CTO of Indico Data, explains how Indico scaled to millions in ARR before building out a formal sales organization.
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“Until, you know, three months ago, we did not have a sales team, right? It was me and Tom, and we drove all of that, right?”
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