Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Chris Buttenham is the founder and CEO of Obie, a company changing the way organizations access and manage their collective knowledge.

Chris got into the startup space magically. No really, he performed magic professionally at a young age and gravitated towards digital marketing to promote himself. By the age of 15 Chris registered his first business, a digital agency that provided marketing and design services for other entertainers and small businesses.

Chris is a self-proclaimed serial entrepreneur, host of two podcasts (The Art of the Fail and Accelerating Support), and was the youngest founder accepted into "Batch 20" of the prestigious 500 Startups accelerator program in California.

Transcript

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0:00.0	We made some quick decisive actions at the beginning of the pandemic just in case.
0:04.7	We cut founder salaries and we lowered burn.
0:08.3	But interest is only increased.
0:10.6	Product usage is only increased.
0:12.7	And sales have only increased since the pandemic with the shift to remote work.
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0:46.2	Eric Wan, 18 months before he took Zoom public.
0:50.2	We got to grow faster. Minimum is 100% over the past several years.
0:54.8	Or bootstrap founders like Vivek of QuestionPro.
0:57.9	When I start the company, it was not cool to raise.
1:00.2	Or Looker's CEO Frank Bean before Google acquired his company for $2.6 billion.
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