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🗓️ 3 April 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:00.0 | Connor Lee used to be hip lead now called Go Personas because they're doing much more than |
0:03.6 | just leads. They grew from $1.8 million in terms of run rate called a year and a half ago to over |
0:07.8 | 3.6 today serving two separate cohorts, self-serve an enterprise together. Again, $310,000 a month |
0:13.8 | in recurring revenue. He's done this in San Francisco and bootstrapped, which I loved. Use some |
0:18.1 | debt to get going, but basically bootstrap, no equity raised, 20 folks on the team, all remote, five engineers, one salesperson, person, 95% net revenue |
0:24.8 | retention as he looks to scale. Check out COVID.gov personas.com for deals during the virus |
0:30.9 | that SaaS companies are doing in terms of discounts. |
0:33.8 | Hello, everyone. My guest today is Connor Lee. He is building a company called go personas.com, |
0:39.2 | formerly named Hipplead, helping sales and marketing team scale the top of their funnel. |
0:44.2 | Connor, you're ready to take us to the top? |
0:45.9 | Ready to take us to the top. |
0:47.2 | All right. So talk to me first about what the company does and then why the name change from Hipplead to Personas. |
0:53.7 | Yeah, absolutely. So at Percentos, we basically help companies scale their sales. |
1:00.2 | So we provide them a platform, a software tool for them to use to run outbound sales and build |
1:07.3 | basically custom growth engines for their companies. |
1:17.9 | And we do that primarily through our own application on a self-serve basis. |
1:21.3 | And we actually will go in with larger businesses, enterprise companies, and help them to build out using custom versions of our software package, |
1:25.9 | their own custom growth models. |
1:28.9 | And about, I'd say about six months ago, we started to move over to a new name Personas from Hipplead. |
1:34.9 | And the reason why we change names is basically because our application, one, isn't just focused on lead data. |
1:43.3 | It's focused on automating, you lead data. It's focused on automation, |
1:45.0 | automating, you know, the B2B sales marketing processes. And I, and Persella's is really |
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