4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Pete has 25 years of experience in leadership roles with high growth companies, spending the majority of his career with technology solutions designed for the global small business community. Prior to joining JazzHR, Pete was Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Carbonite where he was responsible for all revenue and led the company's expansion into the SMB market, which grew to exceed 100,000 paid small business customers. Pete was a member of the Carbonite IPO leadership team. Previously, Pete served as SVP & GM for NameMedia’s SMB-focused Domain Marketplace, the largest of its kind in the world, and Chief Operating Officer of Monster Worldwide's consumer relocation division, helping small businesses convert new movers into lifetime customers. Pete is a graduate of Middlebury College and Harvard Business School.
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0:00.0 | He came on about, oh, eight, nine months ago with Jazz HR. At that point, they were doing about |
0:04.7 | seven-ish, $7.4 million. And in terms of an annual run rate, they have since raised an additional |
0:09.4 | six in capital, bringing the total capital infused with the company over its life since 2009 to |
0:13.6 | about $26 million. They've effectively used that capital to do more of what they're already doing, |
0:18.5 | adding over a million bucks in new ARR in about four or five months, which is really just incredible. They're up to 3,500 paying |
0:24.5 | customers, a couple hundred resellers now on top of that as well. Again, growing in a healthy |
0:29.5 | clip year over year, healthy economics, less than 1% logo churn, gross logo churn per month, |
0:34.1 | lifetime value, break in 10,000 as they look to help companies, again, recruit |
0:37.9 | more efficiently, more effectively, and make those folks last longer. |
0:41.7 | This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies |
0:47.7 | and got filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, |
0:57.0 | and other insider information that creates business news headlines. |
1:02.0 | We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to 2.7 million. |
1:05.0 | I had no money when I started the company. |
1:07.0 | It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs. We're a bit strapped. |
1:12.0 | We have like 22,000 customers. With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, |
1:20.1 | major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. I'm your host, |
1:26.2 | Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode. |
1:29.5 | Hello, everyone. My guest today is Pete Lamson. He's got 25 years of experience in leadership |
1:34.6 | roles with high growth companies, spending majority of his career with technology solutions |
1:38.5 | designed for the global small business community. He's now with Jazz HR, but prior to joining, he was senior vice president |
1:45.2 | of global sales at Carbonite, where he was responsible for all revenue and then the company's |
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