Sustaining high revenue growth requires individual business segments growing 200-300%
Matt Plank · Matt Plank, Rippling's CRO: How to Build an Enterprise Sales Machine | E1241 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Dec 20, 2024 · at 48:27
Matt Plank is Chief Revenue Officer at Rippling. He explains the mathematical requirements for maintaining top-line revenue growth in large scale-up software companies.
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“If you're going to grow, you know, 6070, 80, 90% year over year at hundreds of millions of dollars, like you have to be able to have some things that are growing, you know, two, 300%. Like it's the only way you'll maintain the growth rate.”
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