Connect Insights started coding in 2013, supported himself just through side projects in the financial

industry for two years. And in 2015, signed up their first paying customer. Again, they now have 90

customers paying on average a grand or 1.2 grand per month. So doing about $100,000 per month right now.

That is up from $40,000 per month back a year ago in July of 2017, 90% annual retention on a logo basis,

which is obviously super healthy economics. They're not spending a ton on CAC, but they've got

a 26-person team between Mumbai, Bangalore, and New Delhi, again, helping folks ensure

that they're doing social listening, capturing all mentions of them, and analyzing that all

via their SaaS product.

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We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to $2.7 million.

They had no money when I started the company.

It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs.

We're a bit strapped.

We have like 22,000 customers.

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today's episode.

Hello, everyone. My guest today is Samir Narcar. He is the founder and chief software architect at a company called Connect Insights, a SaaS product that is widely used by many top brands

and agencies. His core strengths are technology, marketing, and sales. He started his career back in 2004

as a software programmer, and when he launched his first company in 2012, he started donning many caps such as strategy, marketing, sales, and legal roles.

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