Episode 1150

E1150: Creating a better presentation software with Pitch's Christian Reber | Rising Stars of SaaS 9

Dec 9, 20201:15:44Watch on YouTube

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Show notes:

0:00 Start

1:09 Jason welcomes the haters & intros Pitch CEO Christian Reber & compliments his prior startup Wunderlist

5:51 Why German’s produce great task-management software & premium products, focus on design

13:31 OurCrowd - Sign up for a free account at https://www.ourcrowd.com/twist

15:05 Trying to buy back Wunderlist from Microsoft

20:06 Pitch’s key differentiators from PowerPoint, Keynote & Google Slides, why decks have gotten a bad rep

25:51 Odoo - Get your first app free & $1000 off your first implementation pack at https://odoo.com/twist

27:22 Raising $50M from great investors - why did Pitch raise that amount? How many engineers does it take to build a best in class product

31:44 DocSend, balancing privacy with analytics data, thoughts on pricing

39:08 Pipe - Start trading on Pipe free for 12 months at https://pipe.com/twist

40:31 Live video collaboration, importance of varied & usable templates

47:53 Pitch’s little big details, optimizing UX, Littlebigdetails.com, Tesla talk

55:43 GTM strategy for bottom-up SaaS, learning from Slack’s acquisition, keeping focus with product teams, maintaining culture as a 2nd time CEO/Founder, work from home