NetSuite

7 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Ron Gill · said 39 times in 10 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Gill: NetSuite maintains an 86% gross margin on recurring subscription revenue
“A company like NetSuite has a gross margin on recurring revenue that's 86%, so it's a very profitable annuity.”
Ron Gill Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:51 a16z Podcast | Why SaaS Revenue is Worth More Than Traditional Software Sales
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
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Gill: Multi-year SaaS contracts provide no extra value over one-year deals
“There's no reason for me to think of a three-year deal as more valuable than a comparable one-year deal. Our retention rates are very high. We're gonna get, We're going to get the second and third year even if even if it's not locked into that initial contract…”
Ron Gill Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:51 a16z Podcast | Why SaaS Revenue is Worth More Than Traditional Software Sales
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
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Gill: NetSuite customer cohort value expands year-over-year despite attrition
“If you look at a company like, ah, NetSuite at a high, high retention, low churn SaaS company, and you do a cohort analysis, you'll get a, you get a year over year, ah, increase in value of the entire install base of customers. So more than a hundred percent, …”
Ron Gill Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:06 a16z Podcast | Why SaaS Revenue is Worth More Than Traditional Software Sales
Jan 2, 2019
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Gill: NetSuite sets sales commissions and quotas based on annual contract value
“We very much use one year contract value as the way to measure thing. That is the fundamental basis for sales comp as well. That's the commissionable amount. That's what quotas are set on.”
Ron Gill Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:15 a16z Podcast | Why SaaS Revenue is Worth More Than Traditional Software Sales
Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Gill: NetSuite reached net income and cash flow positivity during 2009 recession
“Revenue growth slowed for recurring revenue, slowed from in the forties to about 16% in 2009. But that was the year we became net income positive. That was the year we became operating cash flow positive.”
Ron Gill Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:30 a16z Podcast | Why SaaS Revenue is Worth More Than Traditional Software Sales
Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Gill: NetSuite's customer lifetime value doubled between 2012 and 2014
“Our lifetime value of a customer has improved, has slightly more than doubled in the last two years at NetSuite.”
Ron Gill Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:54 a16z Podcast | Why SaaS Revenue is Worth More Than Traditional Software Sales
Jan 19, 2026 bullish
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Rampell: NetSuite and Intuit will win big in AI monetization
“I'm very, very bullish on incumbents. I hope I can say that because I don't think that, I think NetSuite is going to figure out 15 different ways to monetize with AI. I think that QuickBooks, Intuit has this goldmine on their hands where they're just gonna sta…”
Alex Rampell Jan 19, 2026 ▶ 44:11 The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
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