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The journey of Vymo with Yamini Bhat

Episode Summary

In our first episode, Suresh Sambandam (CEO, Kissflow) speaks to Yamini Bhat (Co-founder & CEO, Vymo) on how she and her team pioneered an enterprise #SaaS #startup with high ticket sales, when its ecosystem in #India was all about SMBs. Questions to which you’ll find answers on this #podcast. 👇 ✔️ When the usual advice is to start small, Vymo’s initial set of customers were completely large enterprises. Why did they choose to tread that way? ✔️ When you pitch to investors and they say, mobile-first, Asia-first, distributed and verticalization are all not hot, how do you continue to believe in your conviction? ✔️ How do you work with customers, product champions, and influencers while creating a new category in the world of CRM?

Episode Notes

Vymo is one of the first enterprise SaaS companies in India with a different sales and marketing motion compared to typical horizontal SMB SaaS.

Vymo started building an enterprise SaaS startup when SaaS in India was all about SMB.

Learn more about the founding story of how Yamini Bhat and Venkat Malladi chose the name VYMO to avoid brand clutter, how they set out to solve a problem in the domain of sales, while providing a  high quality user experience journey for enterprise users, to finally build a multi-tenant, single code base, 70-80 use cases, multi vertical product deployed across 60+ enterprises across 7 countries and used by 200,000+ sales reps! 

When the usual advice is to start small, their initial set of customers were all large enterprises. Why did they choose that way?

When you pitch investors and they say, mobile first, Asia first, distributed and verticalization are all not hot, how do you continue to believe in your conviction?

It’s interesting how they worked with customers, product champions, and influencers while creating a new category in the world of CRM.

And they achieved all this when there was no playbook available on deers and whales as is today.

“It took us 8 years back then to do it, now we’ll only take 3 years to do it.” says Yamini.

Download all the wisdom, on strong outbound engine, SDR cadence, customer marketing, value selling, hiring senior positions, managing the board, culture at more in this episode!