SocialBee Faked a Software Company

Ovi Negrean, SocialBee, Consulting, SaaS (software as a service)

Today, SocialBee is a fully functional social media management tool. But at first, it was a guy secretly servicing his customers by using publicly available tools like Google Sheets and Zapier.

That buy was Ovi Negrean. In this interview, he talks about how he did that, while his cofounder wrote their company’s software. And how the services part of his business turned out to be a revenue machine that turned into a business of its own, called ConciergeBee.

Ovi Negrean

SocialBee

Ovi Negrean is a co-founder of SocialBee, the social media management platform.

Andrew: Hey there Freedom Fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. Joining me is a bootstrapper who created a social publishing tool at a time when there were so many competitors that I was a little scared for him, but it did well.

Last time I had him on, he was at, um, six figures in revenue today. The revenue has grown. And so we’re doing a followup interview. His name is Ovi. Negron, he is the founder of Socialbee. Socialbee allows you to post, uh, social content on platforms like Twitter, now X, and Facebook. And, uh, in addition to having software, he also has a concierge done for you service.

And, um, let’s get into it, Ovi. Ovi, last time you didn’t give me the revenue, exactly where are you today?

Ovi: We’re still not giving exact revenues, but, we’ve, passed, onto the seven figures threshold. So we, I think we almost 10 X...

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