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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1332 We almost missed payroll 3 months ago as we reset 5 year old business

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

I’m a founder and CEO of Qlicket. We help enterprises and midsize businesses reduce turnover by giving frontline employees a voice. Before Qlicket, I worked at Blackstone in New York, and as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners. I graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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launched really back in 2012, raised some capital for a different idea, brought John in a couple

0:04.0

months ago in 2017, well, actually about a year ago in 2017, just launched a new product a couple

0:08.4

months ago here in 2018. Now about 100 customers paying 100 bucks per month, 10 grand per month

0:13.4

and pure SaaS revenue. Sounds like some professional services on top of that, which is helping

0:16.9

them with their, you know, cash. You know, they've raised 750 grand. Vivek's out raising about another 250 right now.

0:22.5

Again, trying to hit product market fit for their new Clicket product.

0:26.6

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

0:32.6

and got filthy rich or crash and burn.

0:41.7

Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts,

0:48.3

and other insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to $2.7 million. I had no money when I started the company. It was $160

0:53.3

million, which is the size of

0:54.8

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

1:02.9

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

1:07.8

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

1:12.9

episode. Hello, everybody. My guest today is Vivek. Is Vivek Kumar? We'll talk to John here

1:20.0

in a second, but Vivek is the founder and CEO of a company called Clickit. They help enterprises

1:24.6

and mid-sized businesses reduce turnover by giving frontline employees a voice.

1:28.3

Before Clickit, he worked at Blackstone in New York as a management consultant and then graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

1:34.6

Or maybe those were obviously reversed.

1:36.0

Vivek, are you ready to take us to the top?

1:37.8

Let's do it.

1:38.5

All right, introduce John here.

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