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🗓️ 4 August 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Before joining FotoWare, Anne Gretland held the position as COO in Compello group. Gretland spent 17 years in Microsoft, and held several leadership positions in Microsoft Norway and Western Europe HQ. She is one of the founders of ODA, the largest network for women in tech in the Nordics (8000 members). She is educated in USA and Norway, in communications, marketing and leadership. In 2017 she was named one of Norway's 50 leading IT women. Blog: www.annegretland.com
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0:00.0 | You'll make it in the end. It will all be okay. She joined PhotoWare just two months ago. |
0:04.1 | They were launched in 1997, now 28 people transitioning and really started as file storage, |
0:09.3 | on-premise solutions. I'm talking servers in the basement kind of on-prem. They're now shifting |
0:13.5 | under Anne's efforts to a pure play cloud model, SaaS model as they transition. Revenue will be |
0:20.2 | flat and maybe decline for a little bit, |
0:21.7 | but their market share will drastically increase. They're serving 400,000 customers paying on average |
0:26.8 | 125 bucks a month. That's how you get 500,000 bucks in monthly recurring revenue, which is, again, |
0:31.8 | 4 million Norwegian crown per month. Less than 3% logo churn annually, that's about 100 out of the 4,000. |
0:37.1 | So that's healthy. Again, team, based between Norway, Australia, Sweden, and Russia. |
0:43.5 | This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies |
0:49.4 | and got filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, |
0:58.8 | and other insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple |
1:05.2 | hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million. I had no money when I started the company. |
1:09.3 | It was 160 million dollars, which is the size of |
1:11.7 | any IPOs. We're a bit strapped. We have like 22,000 customers. With over 5 million downloads |
1:19.8 | in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business |
1:25.0 | show on iTunes. I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's |
1:29.4 | today's episode. Hello, everybody. My guest today is Anne Gretland, and before joining her current |
1:36.1 | company, PhotoWare, she held the position of C.O. at Compello Group. She spent 17 years at |
1:41.3 | Microsoft and held several leadership positions in Microsoft, Norway, and Western Europe headquarters. |
1:46.5 | She's one of the founders of ODA, the largest network for women in tech in the Nordics with 8,000 members. |
1:51.6 | She's educated in the USA and Norway and communications, marketing, and leadership. |
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