How to make better decisions while scaling and growing a SaaS company with Ashik Ahmed

In just a couple of weeks, on December 6th, we will be bringing
the SaaStock experience all the way to SaaStock Oceania in
Sydney. On this week's episode, we bring you another great
speaker we will host there - Ashik Ahmed, CEO and CTO of
Deputy. 


Ashik will talk about the shit he wishes he knew as he was
growing the company. One of the central themes in that is the
learning curve in making better decisions, which is the subject
of this week's podcast.   


Ashik and his co-founder Steve Shelley founded Deputy ten years
ago after grappling with scaling issues at Steve’s previous
company where Ashik worked. As they fixed a lot of the
problems, many people in Ashik's network would enquire how it had
happened. The problem of managing work and workers was huge so
they decided to fix it. 


Bootstrapped for 8 years they relied on whatever they were
earning in MRR to grow the company, which called for a specific
kind of decisions making - never too long term but always
fast-paced. Two years ago, they signed a term sheet with OpenView
and have been doubling in size each year since.  


Listen on to learn:


The most impactful advice Ashik ever got about making
decisions

What aside from applying that framework is essential for
making good decisions in a fast-growing SaaS company

An example of how Ashik made the decision to go with Openview
after pitching to 27 other VC companies



On December 6th in Sydney, Ashik will be joined by other exciting
speakers such as Alex Fala, CEO, VendHQ, Luke Anear, CEO, Safety
Culture and Kirsti Grant, CEO Populate and HOP Ventures. You can
use discount code ALEXT30 for 30% off tickets. Get one now.


 


 


 


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