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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Cirrius Insights $640K MRR 100,000 Customers

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0

Good morning. I hope your jog is off to a good start or your commute is rocking and rolling

0:04.0

and you're really going to learn a lot from our guest today. His name is Brandon Bruce and he's the co-founder

0:08.0

and C-O-O of Cirrus Insight, a bootstrap startup in Knoxville, Tennessee. Seris Insight is a plug-in for

0:15.5

Gmail and outlook that tracks emails, schedules meetings, and automatically updates Salesforce as you work.

0:23.2

Cirrus Insight is the second highest rated sales application of all time on the Salesforce app

0:28.7

Exchange. Brandon, are you ready to take us to the top?

0:31.7

Let's do it, Nathan. Thanks for having me.

0:33.1

You bet. Knoxville, Tennessee, I love this. You're not in the valley. You're not in New York.

0:37.1

Why Knoxville? We are out in Knoxville. We are here because my wife is a professor. So we moved

0:43.0

from California to Washington, D.C., and then to Knoxville. And thankfully, I couldn't have asked

0:47.9

for a better place to start a company. I love that. Well, give us a sense of the size of

0:51.5

serious insight. In 2015, let's just go top to bottom. What

0:55.1

were total revenue numbers, 2015? So, ARR, about 6.5 million. And then as far as company size,

1:04.8

we've got 55 total employees between Knoxville, where we have about 35 and Irvine, California,

1:10.8

with my co-founder

1:11.4

Ryan Huff, who runs in engineering. And there's 20 people out there. And help folks understand

1:15.8

that. I don't know what ARR means. What's that mean? So annual recurring revenue.

1:20.5

Yep, annual recurring revenue. And what other, so that's kind of the high level metrics folks.

1:24.6

Tell us what Sears Insight does in more detail. Yeah, so we in 2011 launched

1:31.2

the first integration of Salesforce, which is the famous customer relationship management platform in

1:36.4

the cloud and Gmail. More and more companies were moving to Google apps. And so we provide

1:41.7

a Chrome extension that brings the Salesforce experience,

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