Saarenvirta: Daisy Intelligence has delivered 10x ROI for all customers
Gary Saarenvirta · 1452 Retail SaaS Solution Pases $4M ARR, Goal to Reduce Poverty Levels · Jul 16, 2019 · at 5:49
Gary Saarenvirta, founder of retail AI platform Daisy Intelligence, explains his company's ROI benchmark to Nathan Latka.
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“And for us, if we don't deliver 10 times that return, we tell our customers we're going to quit and move on because we're really selling net income growth is what Daisy sells. And we've been able to do that so far with all of our customers.”
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