Jason Bergenske our CEO of MoveitPro Software was a guest speaker on the SaaS Club podcast who interviews successful growing SaaS (Software as a Service) CEO's to find out how their journey progressed to get them to where they are.
It is an extreme pleasure for SaaS Club to want to have our CEO as a guest on their show.
Jason Bergenske is the founder and CEO of MovitPro, a SaaS product that helps moving and storage companies to manage all aspects of their operations. In 2011, Jason took over a moving and storage business in Orlando, Florida, which his grandparents had started in 1968. He quickly became frustrated that the business was still being run with pen and paper instead of modern software. So he started looking around for a solution. When he couldn't find any software to do what he needed, he decided to hire a developer who could build the software for him. It wasn't smooth sailing right away. Jason went through five different teams before he found developers he could rely on to build what he needed. But a couple of years later, he had spent over $75,000 on development and only built about 10% of the features that he thought his business needed. It was at that point he realized there was an opportunity to build a software product he could sell to other moving and storage companies. And so he made a really important decision at that point. He decided he was going to put everything he was making from the moving and storage business into building this new software business. What's surprising is that Jason spent 5 years building the software before he got his first paying customer. But there's an interesting story behind that. We also talk about how he got his first 50 customers from Yelp with a somewhat unusual but creative approach that helped to start paying the bills. Today, MoveitPro is closing in on $5 million in ARR and is completely self-funded. So it all paid off in the end, but Jason was an accidental SaaS founder who never set out to build a SaaS business. He just wanted better software for himself.
🎧 Full show notes: https://saasclub.io/333
Sara Trichell
