In today’s episode, we’re talking to Jan Schulz-Hofen, the co-founder and managing director at Planio, a project management platform that’s build to make team & client collaboration more efficient and fun. What I like most about Planio, is that the company actually started as a side project—and is today bringing in nearly $85,000 in monthly recurring revenue… which is over $1 Million/year. About 10 years ago, Jan was in the middle of running his own web design & development agency in Berlin, called Launch Co. They partnered with clients like Software AG, Enterprise Rails, and Font Shop to help build and launch Ruby on Rails applications… and all the while, Jan’s team was constantly launching their own side projects—knowing they’d want to get into running a product-focused business, rather than being service providers forever. So naturally, Planio was born out of their drive to create a solution to a consistent problem they were seeing with their clients… they’d help clients build and launch new projects, but after that… many of them didn’t have a good process in place for continuing to manage those new projects. So, Jan and his team built Planio… and they got their first customers for the product by selling it to their existing pool of web development clients. Going on almost 7 years with Planio now, they’ve been steadily growing their revenue and team…
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