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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

SpotMe Using COVID For $22m SaaS Event Platform Pivot, 300 Customers Paying!

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Pierre joined SpotMe in 2001 as a software engineer. In 2004, after a research position on distributed algorithms at NTT Japan, he returned to SpotMe and led the pivot from proprietary hardware to SaaS, with SpotMe becoming the leading pure play event engagement platform. Pierre is a graduate from INSEAD and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

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Yeah, so on the SASS side, and this COVID thing is actually for us just perfect.

0:06.9

I hate to say this because it's stable for a lot of people.

0:09.2

But for us, it's just perfect because it pushes us and it pushes our cost more towards

0:13.4

staffs anyway.

0:14.7

So I think we're going to be hitting 12 to 30 million.

0:17.6

So more than 100% growth in ARR.

0:25.7

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0:58.8

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