Cayasso: Slidebean halted growth hacks to focus on product and profitability
Jose Cayasso · 1318 He's flat, cash flow positive, moving freemium, will his tests turn the ship? · Mar 4, 2019 · at 2:32
Jose Cayasso, founder and CEO of presentation software Slidebean, explains to Nathan Latka why the company intentionally paused aggressive growth efforts to prioritize product quality and profitability.
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“We build ourselves to have a profitable team and then not to force ourselves to be in a position to raise money again, and then use that revenue simply to improve on the product, knowing full aware that we were gonna, you know, that we were gonna stop most of the growth hacking efforts and simply dedicate on building a more, a much more solid product to support our users much better.”
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