Brian Pontarelli
- CEO at FusionAuth
GetLatka interview
How FusionAuth Reached 50 Paying Customers in Its First Year with a Bootstrapped Hybrid SaaS Model (Interview with CEO Brian Pontarelli)
Brian Pontarelli (CEO of FusionAuth) spoke to Nathan Latka on October 9, 2019.
FusionAuth figures from the interview
- Paying Customers (2019)
- 50
- Sales and Marketing Spend
- $600,000
- Team Size (2019)
- 6
“It's different. So we are calling it like a hybrid SaaS or a downloadable SaaS. There's a lot of different terms we're kind of playing around with, but basically it's a SaaS, but you can run it anywhere on any server in the world.”
“It's not open source, but it is just free for developers to use. The only thing you pay for is if you want us to do hosting or do any professional services or you need any type of support.”
“On average, that's a good question. I would say somewhere between $6,000 and $10,000 for a year.”
Bio
Brian Pontarelli is a successful technology entrepreneur currently focused on solving login, registration, and user management challenges. Brian works with startup to Fortune 500 organizations struggling to address the complexity of secure CIAM as their businesses requirements evolve and user base scales from a handful of users to millions.