One urgent email changed everything. When a European health agency asked for a metadata registry no one else could provide, we didn’t spin up a pitch deck—we built. That moment of raw product–market fit set Sam Spencer, CEO of Aristotle Metadata, on a decade-long journey of scaling with focus, process, and a bias for the next achievable step. We talk about the unglamorous truths of SaaS: why your first competitor is almost always Excel; how a scrappy prototype beats a perfect plan; and where...
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One urgent email changed everything. When a European health agency asked for a metadata registry no one else could provide, we didn’t spin up a pitch deck—we built. That moment of raw product–market fit set Sam Spencer, CEO of Aristotle Metadata, on a decade-long journey of scaling with focus, process, and a bias for the next achievable step. We talk about the unglamorous truths of SaaS: why your first competitor is almost always Excel; how a scrappy prototype beats a perfect plan; and where...
From Excel Spreadsheet to Game-Changing SaaS: The 200-hour Admin Problem One Founder Solved
SaaS Stories
40 minutes
7 months ago
From Excel Spreadsheet to Game-Changing SaaS: The 200-hour Admin Problem One Founder Solved
Catherine Ashton, founder and CEO of Critical Info, shares her journey of creating a comprehensive platform to simplify end-of-life planning after experiencing firsthand the overwhelming administrative burden following a death. We Discuss: • The Critical Info platform and how it helps people learn about end-of-life choices. • Catherine's "My Loved One Died. What Do I Do Now?" guide walks people through steps in the first hours, days, weeks and months. • The importance of getting to know you...
SaaS Stories
One urgent email changed everything. When a European health agency asked for a metadata registry no one else could provide, we didn’t spin up a pitch deck—we built. That moment of raw product–market fit set Sam Spencer, CEO of Aristotle Metadata, on a decade-long journey of scaling with focus, process, and a bias for the next achievable step. We talk about the unglamorous truths of SaaS: why your first competitor is almost always Excel; how a scrappy prototype beats a perfect plan; and where...
