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1435 Live Chat For Business Passes $5m in ARR, 31,000 Customers, Bootstrapped

1435 Live Chat For Business Passes $5m in ARR, 31,000 Customers, Bootstrapped

FromSaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders


1435 Live Chat For Business Passes $5m in ARR, 31,000 Customers, Bootstrapped

FromSaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

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Length:
22 minutes
Released:
Jun 29, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Tim Valishev is the CEO of JivoChat (https://www.jivochat.com/) ? Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 – Nathan's introduction to today's show 0:30 – How they help customers better convert using chatbots 1:00 – Why they are north of $5M in ARR right now 2:55 – How their growth has accelerated in emerging markets 2:00 – Why they have grown to serve 230k websites worldwide 2:30 – How the average customer pays JivoChat around $13 per month 3:00 – Why they are different from Drift and Intercom 4:00 – How they have incorporated the calling-in feature 5:20 – Why they launched the company in January 2012 6:50 – How he landed his first 10 customers through existing relationships 8:10 – Why they are exhibiting 45% logo churn annually 9:45 – How they've scaled to 32k paying customers 10:15 – Why they are landing 20k new sign-ups per month 11:15 – How JivoChat is growing via word of mouth 14:00 – Why they spent $300k to break into the Brazilian market 16:00 – How their team of 120 is remotely distributed 16:45 – Why he wants to remain bootstrapped 17:40 – The Famous Five
Released:
Jun 29, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Over 10M founders, CEO's, and investors have downloaded this 15 minute daily podcast from Nathan Latka. Each day Latka interviews a software (SaaS) CEO and gets them to share how they've grown (or not) so fast all backed by hard data points. To date, over 1000 CEO's have been interviewed that together do over $6b in revenue, have raised over $5b, and employ more than 180,000 employees. The magazine for CEO's: http://nathanlatka.com/magazine The Book for CEO's: http://nathanlatka.com/bookamazon