Tom Hunt

$3.6m ARR. $0 raised. I have no idea what I'm doing.

Jan 2014.I'm walking home from a depressing New Year's trip to Oslo with an ex. girlfriend.It's raining in East London.I made a decision:I would replace my management consulting salary (£42,000) by the end of the year.I had no idea from where, but that was the goal...I just about hit it and left the corporate world.And I haven't been back since.Fast forward a decade and I've:- Tried and failed with 17 businesses- Invested in 11- Learnt a LOTThe one that is finally working is called Fame:- We have a weird culture (in a good way)- We start and grow podcasts for B2B businesses- We are fully remote and have 75 full-time team membersI live for our awesome team at Fame, building businesses and great marketing.And I post about them here 🤗

Founder & CEO

We start and grow the world's most profitable B2B podcasts.

Clients include:

👉 IDEO
👉 Workday
👉 HighRadius
👉 People.ai
👉 Zendesk
👉 Bevy
👉 Circle
👉 Suzy
👉 Mazars
👉 LeanData
👉 CXL
👉 Ramp
👉 Alibaba
👉 Signify
👉 eToro

“We need to let them go.”

I’m in a 1-1 and a manager thinks someone in their team isn’t performing.

I'm in shock, to me they seemed enthusiastic and a culture fit.


We dug into the details:

- What weren’t they doing?
- Why weren’t they doing it?

The manager thought they either didn't understand or couldn't do the role.

Then I ask:

“How did onboarding go?”

“What do you mean by onboarding?” they reply.


And that's when we found the issue:

We skipped the onboarding process and replaced it with "a couple of calls".


If you’re recruiting right, you owe it to yourself to onboard right.

You can’t expect someone to join and start performing, you need to set them up to succeed.

Onboard right or do it twice.

Agree?

$4.5m ARR. $0 raised. I have no idea what I’m doing.

Being easy to work with is a skill.

It’s honed with practice.


I call it, being a Working Legend.

Here’s how you do it:

 - Seek feedback
- Be collaborative
- Own your mistakes
- Respect others’ opinions
- Maintain a positive attitude
- Don’t take credit for others’ work
- Offer solutions, not just problems
- Respond quickly to simple requests
- Don’t pretend to have all the answers

What am I missing?

We have 77 full-time team members scattered around the globe.


Building a remote team sounds simple, but the biggest headache is the tech gap.

Most founders do not see these real operational challenges coming.

I spent a decade building businesses, and the move to fully remote with Fame was a massive learning curve.

People talk about the freedom of remote work, but nobody tells you about the friction that quietly damages your culture before it even forms.


When you hire someone new, they need to feel like they are part of the team from day one.

If they sit around for a week waiting for a laptop to arrive, you have already lost that initial momentum.

It is a practical nightmare getting reliable kits to people fast without it becoming a full-time job for your operations person.


Then there are the hidden costs.

Buying hardware upfront is a massive cash drain.

Every pound you lock up in a laptop that depreciates the second it leaves the box is a pound you cannot spend on a big hire or a new growth experiment.


I realised we needed to stop buying stuff that rots on our balance sheet.

We use Raylo to remove this friction.

- It takes 60 seconds to set up a subscription, we pay £0 upfront, and the tech arrives the next day.

- They just launched the new Apple MacBooks for pre-order, and they start shipping from the 10th of March.

- We get flexible terms for our team, and we upgrade for free so we are never stuck with outdated kit.

Running a remote business is challenging.

But Raylo offers a reliable way to get team tech and ensure they feel valued from day one.

You keep your capital for growth.

Brand partnership • $4.5m ARR. $0 raised. I have no idea what I’m doing.

𝐈’𝐦 𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐚𝐒 𝐀𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐨! 

I build products for bootstrapped founders, fast-growing startups, and big enterprises at DevSquad. 

My own SaaS company, DevStats, helps product and engineering leaders measure what matters. 

And with the SaaS Origin Stories Podcast, I uncover those pivotal moments and decisions that turned SaaS companies into major successes.


𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐒𝐐𝐔𝐀𝐃:

I’m the CEO and Principal Consultant at DevSquad a boutique consulting firm that specializes in strategizing, designing, and developing digital products. (most SaaS Products). I’ve led the build of 100+ software products. This includes SaaS products for bootstrapper founders, VC-funded fast-growing startups, and big enterprises like ADP, Box, and the US ski team.

𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒕 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝑺𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒅: 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒅𝒆𝒗𝒔𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒅.𝒄𝒐𝒎/ 


𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐒: 

The success of my consulting firm (DevSquad), is allowing me to bootstrap my second SaaS product. (I sold my first SaaS years ago).

I’m building DevStats to help Product and Engineer leaders measure what matters.

Currently, we are a private beta and I’m super excited with the feedback we are getting from our early users. 

𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐚: 𝐡𝐭𝐭𝐩𝐬://𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐬.𝐜𝐨𝐦/ 


𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐍 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐀𝐒 𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓: 

I recently started a Podcast. my goal with this podcast is to learn from SaaS founders so that I can become better at building SaaS products for myself, and my clients, and hopefully have the podcast listeners learn along with me.

𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆 𝑵𝒐𝒘: 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑𝒔://𝒘𝒘𝒘.𝒔𝒂𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔.𝒄𝒐𝒎/𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆

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