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EP 509: 21 Year Old Invests $500k To Re-Invent Webinars with Demio CEO Wyatt Jozwowski

EP 509: 21 Year Old Invests $500k To Re-Invent Webinars with Demio CEO Wyatt Jozwowski

FromSaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders


EP 509: 21 Year Old Invests $500k To Re-Invent Webinars with Demio CEO Wyatt Jozwowski

FromSaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Dec 15, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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Wyatt Jozwowzki, co-founder and CEO of Demio, a smart, webinar platform on a simple mission. He’s passionate about creating a great customer and user experience. Listen as Wyatt shares about Demio; from its inception to a Wyatt creating a working, webinar platform that is earning a revenue from only a few days on the market.  Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do you follow? –  Jason Lemkin Favorite online tool? — Clarity.fm Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— seven to eight hours If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – “That it was going to be 10 times harder than I thought”   Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:42 – Nathan introduces Wyatt to the show 02:08 – Demio is a web-based webinar platform built for marketing 02:18 – “We wanted to create a webinar platform that is actually easy and ready to use” 02:35 – Demio was just launched in November 9th of this year 02:54 – Wyatt has a company called Drip Apps as well 03:12 – Demio is the biggest software project that Wyatt has  ever  taken on 03:15 – Wyatt has been working with Demio for 2 years now 03:28 – Demio was in free beta for 3-4 months 03:38 – People used Demio for their webinars for free 03:48 – This was done to test Demio’s reliability and performance 04:02 – Wyatt wants simplicity to be Demio’s  platform 04:51 – Wyatt has invested about half of million on Demio 04:48 – Demio has a team of 3 developers,  1 designer, and 1 QA manager 05:40 – Some of the team members are from Upwork and other online job postings 06:21 – Wyatt got his funding from Drip Apps’ revenue 06:53 – Wyatt got the idea of Demio from a suggestion 07:30 – First software project of Wyatt’s was a video ranking platform 07:45 – Drip Apps has Drip Core which has a $47/month subscription 08:09 – 470 users have signed-up 08:23 – Drip Apps was launched 3 years ago 08:53 – Drip Apps’ 2015 revenue 09:15 – Drip Apps runs independently of Wyatt, freeing him up to work on Demio 09:52 – Demio was not really planned 10:20 – Nathan refers to Episode 252 and how Wyatt reminds him of Omar of Webinar Ninja 10:38 – Demio already has paying customers 10:46 – Demio is a SaaS business model and they currently have discounted annual pricing 10:59 – On launch day, Demio’s price range was from $237 a year to $497 a year 11:08 – Price range increased on November 16th 12:20 – Wyatt’s strategy for Demio 13:10 – Having a webinar is not that easy and is very challenging 13:40 – Demio is web-based and does not require any desktop software to be installed 13:42 – Wyatt is currently focused on expanding browser and mobile support 14:05 – There are a number of unique customers that have signed-up 14:30 – There are customers who have asked for refunds 15:49 – Connect with Wyatt through Twitter 17:20 – The Famous Five   3 Key Points: There are huge challenges in the tech industry, but it’s definitely worth it to keep pressing on. Streaming in real-time is one of the most difficult things to achieve in a webinar. Be consistent in working out those hurdles and challenges.    Resources Mentioned: Acuity Scheduling – Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments Drip – Nathan uses Drip’s email automation platform and visual campaign builder to build his sales funnel Toptal – Nathan found his development team using Toptal for his new business Send Later. He was able to keep 100% equity and didn’t have to hire a co-founder due to the quality of Toptal Host Gator – The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible. Audible – Nathan uses Audible when he’s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books. The Top Inbox  – The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens and follow-up with email sequences @WyattJawz – Wyatt’s Twitter handle Upwork – Where Wyatt found his team members Show Notes provided by Mallard Crea
Released:
Dec 15, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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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