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Aaaand we\u2019re back! SaaS Open Mic<\/a> took a small break at\u00a0the tail end of 2016, but we\u2019re back now for a new season, with fresh ideas and guests to pipe directly into your ears. We hope you\u2019ve had a restful holiday season, and like us are back with a burning desire to learn and build great things in 2017 and beyond.<\/p>\n

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Bryant Chou<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But…\u00a0before we dive into everything new for this new year, I wanted to share with you a discussion that happened a couple of months back, when Webflow founder Bryant Chou<\/a> dropped by the ChartMogul office to chat with Annie and myself.<\/p>\n

Webflow<\/a> is a fascinating product in the SaaS space, partly because it\u2019s commonly associated to a current trend in the industry towards consolidation.<\/b> I wanted to probe a bit more on this topic, and also understand Bryant\u2019s approach to building, marketing and selling a product that targets multiple user personas.<\/p>\n

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“There’s definitely a consolidation in SaaS going on, but where we saw the biggest opportunity was with this invisible wall… between design and development, where designers who didn’t know how to code would be literally stopped dead in their tracks.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So download the episode in your usual podcast player (I use Pocket Casts<\/a>) or listen on SoundCloud<\/a>\u00a0below. Don’t forget to subscribe<\/a>,\u00a0then\u00a0those big 2017 plans we have will land right in your lap!<\/p>\n

https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/chartmogul\/webflow-saas-consolidated-bryant-chou<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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