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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1287 Why He Left Salesforce After $50m+ Acquisition to Build Kustomer.com

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Brad has been building Customer Support companies for more than 20 years. Previously he was the Co-founder of Assistly, which was acquired by Salesforce and became Desk.com. Prior to that he was CTO for Talisma and Co‑founder & CTO of eShare Technologies.

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Founded as current company in 2015 with partners that had a lot of success in their first

0:04.4

company in Cicely selling to Salesforce for north of 50 million bucks.

0:07.1

Stayed there for a couple years.

0:08.3

Then had some time and airtime and then jumped back into where it's hard as B2B SaaS, launching

0:12.5

customer with a K, again, making customer interactions way easier with way more kind of data

0:17.4

integrated so that the processing of feedback or free funds, changes in

0:21.9

sizes, things like that are much easier.

0:24.3

They've got 40% quarterly revenue expansion, 52 people based in New York City, $38 million

0:29.3

raised growing out a very healthy clip.

0:31.7

Average customer paying about $100 per month, you know, caught just south of between

0:36.9

$1,000 and $10,000 logos per month, but impact much caught just south of between 1,000 and 10,000 logos per month,

0:39.1

but impact much greater in terms of large seat sizes for each of those logos.

0:43.6

This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies

0:49.6

and got filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts,

0:59.0

and other insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple

1:05.4

hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million. I had no money when I started the company.

1:09.5

It was 160 million dollars, which is the size

1:11.7

of any IPOs. We're a bit strapped. We have like 22,000 customers. With over 5 million

1:19.4

downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing

1:24.8

business show on iTunes. I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

1:31.7

Hello, everyone. My guest today is Brad Barmbom.

1:34.2

He has been building customer support companies for more than 20 years.

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