Spencer is the co-founder and COO at Beamer, an easy to use newsfeed, changelog and notification center that helps you get up to 3x more user engagement, increase customer retention and convert more leads. Spencer started his career in finance as an IB Analyst in New York then moved to LATAM and co-founded two successful tech businesses. Spencer is an expert on building SaaS companies, Latin America finance, fundraising, valuations and M&A. During this interview we cover: 00:00 Contentfy, Your On-Demand Content Team (Sponsor) 02:06 - Spencer’s Background, Past Positions & Ventures 04:03 - Current Status of Hibox and Join Cube 06:01 - Capital or Bootstrapped?, & Beamer in Terms of Size 07:13 - The Problem Beamer is Solving 08:29 - All in With the New Idea or Leveraging Leads from Past Ventures 10:50 - AppSumo as A Launching Tool to Start the Feedback Loop 12:21 - Why & How to Best use In-App Notifications for SaaS products 14:37 - In-App VS Email or Other Channels 17:31 - Is Beamer For Every SaaS Company? 18:40 - Improving NPS & User Engagement for SaaS Companies 21:05 - Beamer Successful Growth Strategies 24:12 - Marketing & Sales VS Product Lead 34:55 - Growth Strategies That Didn’t Worked for Beamer 25:42 - How the Beamer team Create & Measure OKRs? 27:08 - Advice Spencer Would Give His 25 Years Old Self 28:33 - Biggest Challenges Spencer is Facing Right Now with Beamer? 29:22 - Instrumental Resources for Spencer’s Success 30:51 - What does Success Mean to Spencer Today 32:02 - Get in Touch With Spencer
Mentions: https://www.getbeamer.com/ (Beamer) https://www.hibox.co/ (Hibox) https://www.joincube.com/es/ (Join Cube)
People: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgrodriguez/ (Mariano Rodriguez)
Podcasts: https://www.allinpodcast.co/ (The All in Podcast)
Get In Touch With Spencer: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/ (Spencer’s Linkedin)
Tag us & follow: https://www.facebook.com/SaaSDistrictPodcast/ (Facebook) https://www.facebook.com/SaaSDistrictPodcast/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/horizen-capital (LinkedIn) https://www.linkedin.com/company/horizen-capital https://www.instagram.com/saasdistrict/ (Instagram) https://www.instagram.com/saasdistrict/ (https://www.instagram.com/saasdistrict/)
More about Akeel: Twitter - https://twitter.com/AkeelJabber (https://twitter.com/AkeelJabber) LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/akeel-jabbar (https://linkedin.com/in/akeel-jabbar) More Podcast Sessions - https://horizencapital.com/saas-podcast (https://horizencapital.com/saas-podcast)