Ron Jones is the CEO of G2Xchange, a market intelligence platform for government contractors. He describes the company's team structure and product-led growth strategy to Nathan Latka.
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“19 full time, about six product engineering and those are all brought on in 2021 to help build everything that we're about to release, right? And then the rest of the seven contents, so there's also researchers, analysts, writers, right? So they focus on building the actual insights, you know, producing that. The rest of us wear multiple hats across different growth functions. So customer success marketing, right? Support. And another important distinction is that there's no salespeople, right?”
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“Introduced the 14 day free trial, you know, which we have since, you know, it kicked off towards the end of May, we've done about 30% drop inversion rate, which is pretty good.”
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“AWS is one of our customers. They sell, you know, lots of cloud services, as you know, to the government. Deloitte, another customer of ours management consulting, technology implementation.”
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“So we have a couple of tiers of membership, but it's we have an individual membership that's 500 dollars a year. We don't do monthly subscriptions. It's all annual. So 500 bucks a year. And we also have business memberships, you know, corporate memberships, wh…”
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Jones: G2Xchange projected to hit $2M revenue in November 2022
“Yeah, we'll, we'll cross the two million mark in November. That's the projection, a two million mark in November.”
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“It's a tech enabled market intelligence service today. But on our roadmap, we're building a SaaS product to introduce to the market. It's probably Q two of next year.”
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“So it's shadow equity. You have someone on recently that had the same setup. It was, it seems to be, you know, pretty common in like a private investor, private equity kind of situation, but it's shadow equity, 20%.”
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