In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Job van der Voort, Co-Founder & CEO at Remote, who shares their hypergrowth journey and how they scaled Remote to hundreds of millions in ARR.
“I would always say this is a great problem to have. If you grow really, really fast and it’s a luxury problem, and if you just embrace it like that, then everything becomes much easier. Just embrace it in the most honest possible way, which is that, wow, we get so much interest that we have to solve these really difficult problems right now. It’s for the sake of, you know, our success, or at least the direction of success. To me, that was never difficult. What is difficult is how it affects the rest of your life.”
Job shares:
- From $0 to $1M ARR in six months, and $1M ARR to hundreds of millions in three years: the operational and human problems Remote faced during rapid growth
- His attitude towards increased responsibility and fighting fires – ‘it’s a great luxury to have problems to solve’
- Why too many people get distracted by ‘building for the sake of building’ and deprioritise talking to customers and actively marketing the product
- How to stay clear-headed during a period of hypergrowth
- ‘The sun will shine tomorrow’, how he stays motivated when times get tough
and more!
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