$4.2M ARR in 12 Years: The Unsexy Truth About Building SaaS in Poland

04/11/2025 59 min Temporada 2 Episodio 8

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Episode Synopsis

Kamil Rejent built Survicate from zero to $4.2M ARR over 12 years. No overnight success. No unicorn story. Just 12 years of grinding, pivoting, and not quitting.In this conversation, we talk about:→ Why most startups die by year 3 (and what kept him going for 12)→ The two forces that drive founders: ambition and fear of failure→ How Survicate competes with Typeform, SurveyMonkey, and 500+ other survey tools from Warsaw→ Why they don't spend on Google Ads (and what they do instead)→ The biggest pivots: website engagement tool → customer surveys → customer feedback platform→ The investor who challenged him to pick one use case (and changed everything)→ AI's impact on surveys (and why surveys aren't going away)→ Why vibe coding isn't the silver bullet everyone thought (Kamil tried it, gave up after 2 days)→ What changed in Poland's tech scene over 12 years (and what's still broken)→ The worst part about being a CEO (hint: it's not glamorous)→ Why "slow and steady" isn't their strategy (even though it looks that way from the outside)→ The one quality he looks for when hiring: curiosity→ Why growing ambitious goals every year matters (even if you never hit them)Kamil raised VC money but didn't follow the "grow at all costs" playbook. He built sustainably, competed scrappily, and never quit.The result? One of Poland's most respected B2B SaaS companies.This isn't the polished LinkedIn version. This is what 12 years of building actually looks like.

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