1318 He's flat, cash flow positive, moving freemium, will his tests turn the ship?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Founder and CEO of Slidebean. TEDx Speaker. Graphic designer transformed into growth hacker. Frequent flyer miles hoarder.

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0:00.0	Start a business faster.
0:01.9	That's what he would have told himself.
0:02.8	Building up Slide Bean, presentation software for everybody.
0:05.7	Founded that in 2014, now at about 20 people.
0:07.9	He right-sized of business over the last year.
0:09.4	They raised $850,000,000 per year in revenue.
0:13.7	But again, profitable, which is key.
0:15.0	It's buying him time to run some of these tests that he's thinking through.
0:17.8	So hopefully we'll have you back on, Jose. You'll give us an update on the test, and we'll keep crank it in the meantime.
0:22.7	This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies
0:28.6	and got filthy rich or crash and burn.
0:33.9	Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information that creates business news headlines.
0:43.3	We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to $2.7 million.
0:46.3	I had no money when I started the company.
0:48.3	It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs.
0:51.3	We're a bit strapped.
0:52.3	We have like 22,000 customers.
0:56.7	With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time,
1:00.9	major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.
1:05.9	I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.
1:09.9	Hello, everyone, my guest today is Jose Kayaso.
1:12.7	He is the founder and CEO of a company called SlideBeen.
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