On June 26th Atlanta Ventures hosted Greg Benoit, Founder & CEO of QGenda, at an Atlanta Healthcare Entrepreneur Meetup. Greg sat down with A.T. Gimbel to talk about the QGenda story, including vetting the idea, taking it from excel sheets to a working product, the ins and outs of his fundraising, and what Atlanta can do to better support healthcare entrepreneurs! Check out the video below!
Benoit came up with the idea for QGenda starting back to when he was fifteen. A doctor in his neighborhood had shared how it was extremely hard to schedule everyone in his department with all of their nuances in requests for certain shifts. He offered Benoit a thousand dollars to do the scheduling for him. “As a 15-year-old kid, the only part I heard was the 1,000 dollars,” joked Benoit. After lots of excel crunching, testing, and customer discovery, he thought the scheduling problems could be solved with software. Healthcare scheduling has complexities that other employee scheduling programs don’t face, and he knew he needed a unique solution. Luckily for Benoit, manual crunching while in high school gave him the experience and tools to know how to build the best software.
One of the best ways to truly learn and build it is to do it with professional services—do it behind the scenes.
While it took a long time to get the product to where it is today, all he needed for V1 was an algorithm, a screen, a place to view the schedule, and reporting, all because he had found product market fit through his first customers he served by manually using Excel.
When it comes to prioritizing product development, it’s import to stay focused.
I feel like those rabbit holes are really easy to go down...and we went down them... but since we were one hundred percent bootstrapped and every penny was the company’s money, we were extremely thoughtful and disciplined in every line of code we wrote.
One question Gimbel asked Benoit was around co-founders. While he was a solo founder, the process is not easy and often someone to go the journey with is helpful. When looking for that co-founder to go the journey with, Benoit shared,
I think the right mix is somebody that's a little bit more introverted, technical, able to execute and then having a complementary co-founder that is more sales/marketing, able to get out in front of folks and speak and start to get the vision going. That's a perfect dynamic and mix. I think you do want to have co-founders that are going to be complementary to each other.
At the point Benoit began to consider raising money, he had already bootstrapped QGenda to a $20 million recurring revenue company, and started thinking in order to grow, they were going to need a partner. Finding the right partner could take them to the next level.
He considered “Who do we like best? Who do we see achieving our goals with us?” They ended up partnering with Francisco Partners, a private equity firm, and have been able to scale to $70M ARR.Â
They weren't the highest bidder, they didn't give us the greatest value, but for us, it didn't matter. It was more about the long-term goal.
Right now the QGenda team has a few priorities: get to $100M ARR, expand their Total Addressable Market by creating more products to layer on, mergers and acquisitions, and ultimately building a billion dollar company.
When it comes to Atlanta growing its HealthIT presence, Benoit said, “events like this” are helpful and important. He also recommends everyone find a healthcare mentor here.
They're absolutely going to help you because I guarantee you, that's how they got there, with their own set of mentors.
When it comes to how Atlanta can continue to support entrepreneurs in the space, he believes,
We already have a good healthcare community here. I think having a specific healthcare investment firm (or arm) from local money could make a huge improvement. It’s more impactful with someone focused on Healthcare specifically.
View video clips from the meetup or read the story of how Benoit’s solving physicians’ pain with Atlanta’s Tech Rise.
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