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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nigerian Founder Uses WhatsApp Group to Go $0 to $60k in 5 Months for Testing Tool

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

This Nigerian SaaS founder used a secret WhatsApp group to get his first $60k in sales. His new SaaS helps companies automate their code testing so they can release faster. $45k invested in the MVP so far. He owns 51% of the company, bootstrapped. 

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0:38.3

Guys, he launched Getscandium just four or five months ago.

0:41.2

It's an automated testing tool.

0:42.4

They've already got 30 paying customers doing five grand a month in revenue or 60,000 ARR.

0:47.0

He already had an exit under his belt.

0:48.4

AZ is his name.

0:49.1

He's based in Nigeria.

0:50.6

He used 45K of his own money to help kickstart this one with his co-founder and put in a bit more.

0:55.2

They split it on 51-49, hoping to launch and get more customers.

0:59.2

Their first 30 customers came from a WhatsApp group of founders in Nigeria.

1:04.1

Hey, folks, my guest today is AZ.

1:05.9

He's a serial founder who harmonizes his background in technology and product development to build several startups.

1:14.6

Over 10 years of experience in product management business development software leadership he successfully designed built and scaled valuable tech driven companies out of africa a z you

1:20.3

ready to take us the top yeah how you doing i'm doing well okay so you're working on a company got now

1:26.3

called git scandiumcom, a no code

1:29.2

test automation tool. Tell me a customer story of how someone's using you today. Okay. So maybe I

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