443: Supademo: From Cold Outreach Failure to 7-Figure SaaS - with Joseph Lee

This episode explores Joseph Lee's journey from a pandemic-stricken B2B seafood marketplace, Freshline, to founding Supademo, an AI-powered platform for creating interactive product demos. Lee recounts how the near-total loss of Freshline's revenue due to COVID-19 forced a series of pivots, ultimately leading to a white-label e-commerce platform for food distributors. Against the backdrop of this experience, Lee identified the problem of ineffective product videos, which sparked the idea for Supademo, designed to scale the engaging experience of live screen-sharing sessions. More significantly, the discussion covers Supademo's initial struggles in targeting early-stage founders and the eventual shift to larger organizations, which unlocked stickier, expansion-ready customers. For instance, Lee details how leveraging Reddit by creating free demos for strangers drove initial sign-ups and how embedding Supademo into helpful content turned low-intent traffic into active users. The conversation pivots to SEO strategies, including removing the signup wall and creating free tools, which dramatically transformed their SEO approach. Emerging industry patterns reflected in this discussion include the importance of product-led growth, the challenges of outbound sales, and the need for pragmatic grit in navigating the startup landscape.