Saurav Gupta
Recent posts focus on content & personal brand, outbound & prospecting and product & building.
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In 2016, I got a 35 lacs per annum ($53k/year) job at a hot startup. Day-one placement out of IIT Delhi. I quit on the first day. My boss was stunned. Nobody quits on day one. My parents were worse than stunned. In…
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My mom was the youngest of 11 kids in eastern UP. A mistake, basically. Nobody loved her except her father. At 16, she was the only child who took care of him when he was really sick. She used to take him to Banaras…
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While my first startup was dying, I cold-messaged Parikshit Roy, the former CEO of Johnson Controls, on LinkedIn. I didn't ask him for money. I didn't have a deck ready or a pitch prepared. I told him I was lost and ask…
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We hit $10k a month within three months of launching. For SaaS that's absurdly fast. The average founder takes two years to get there. I felt it for about a day. Then immediately: okay, on to $20k. Hit that. On…
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My entire 30-person team costs $15,000 a month. In San Francisco, that's one junior developer. I run SalesRobot from India. We just crossed $1M ARR. Bootstrapped (No VC. No debt.) When I tell US founders my burn rate…
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a private equity advisory firm runs a 15-person team with no room for busywork so, of course they use SalesRobot for LinkedIn outreach their SalesRobot campaign hit 65% reply rate, and what Doug said watching it run is…
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If you made me name the single value behind almost every decision I've made, it's one word. Leverage. The most output for the least effort. For me specifically, the most cash flow for the least work. It's the whole r…
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Someone always asks why we're not the cheapest option. There are LinkedIn tools at a few dollars a month. Fair question, honest answer. The cheap tools send messages. That's it. They'll happily let you blast 100 c…
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this agency personalizes first lines in LinkedIn messages for 3,000 prospects a day. by hand that's impossible, so they don't do it by hand lol for every prospect, before the message sends, SalesRobot visits their web…
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We hit $10k a month within three months of launching. For SaaS that's absurdly fast. The average founder takes two years to get there. I felt it for about a day. Then immediately: okay, on to $20k. Hit that. On…
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The engineer in you is tempted to build this. I get it, I'm one too. So let me save you the six months. To run LinkedIn outbound properly you need: 1. safe sending that respects the daily limits so you don't get r…
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Early on I had to admit something uncomfortable: I was a good engineer and a terrible salesman. I'd trained as an AI researcher. I could build. But when it came time to actually sell what I built, I froze. I couldn't…
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An Italian lead gen agency owner books 10-15 appointments a month for each B2B client his best SalesRobot campaign hit 55% reply rate. i asked him why it worked and he gave me two things targeting: → built the list in…
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People see SalesRobot and Kuron and assume I knew what I was doing. Here's the actual list before it: 2016: an AI CCTV software product. Failed. 2017: pivoted the same thing to a services business. Failed. 2017: an AI…
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If you're deciding between running outbound yourself and paying an agency, here's the math no one lays out for you (but should) A cold outbound agency runs $3k-5k a month. For that you get a list, some copy, a sending…
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a marketing agency owner I know sat on a sales call and watched the prospect pick an AI bot over her "i'm going with the AI that does all my marketing" - to her face, mid-call so she built her agency on the thing that…
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Everyone posts the milestone like it's a door you walk through once. I hit $30k in monthly revenue four separate times. We'd climb to 30, churn would drag us back, we'd claw to 30 again, slide again. Four times at the…
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Everyone in my category is looking for a growth hack. A hook, a trend, a viral post format. I stopped looking for those and started studying growth loops instead, because the companies actually winning around me all…
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2020: zero revenue in August, roughly $8k a month by December. 2021: $8k a month became $400k for the year. I did the math in my head and decided the line just kept going. $400k to $1.6M by 2022 felt obvious. It wasn…
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Back in 2016, OYO had a problem. Guests would book through the app, show up at the hotel, then get talked into cancelling at the front desk for a lower cash rate. Their fix: install our cameras and have us prove it wa…
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