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Wickramasekara: 60% of Benchling customers' laboratory instruments are unconnected
“The last time we kind of ran one of these benchmarking exercises was that For our customers, 60% of their instruments are not connected.”
Wickramasekara: Benchling wouldn't exist if he knew it required enterprise sales
“If you had told me when I was 21 that I was signing up to do like enterprise sales to big pharma, I'd have been like, absolutely not. I'm not starting this company.”
Wickramasekara: Benchling has 800 employees and spends $100M annually on R&D
“We are, 800 people today. We, I think about 40% of our team works in R&D, probably spend a hundred million dollars a year on, on R&D.”
Wickramasekara: Enterprise buyers evaluate multi-year trajectory over current capabilities
“Enterprises are not buying for the present moment. They are buying like Multi-year.”
Wickramasekara: Benchling is well past $100M in annual recurring revenue
“Well past hundred, but still very hard.”
Wickramasekara: Scaling Benchling to $1M ARR was 100x harder than scaling further
“Going from kind of zero to one was a hundred times harder than one to N.”
Wickramasekara: 100 deeply addicted users signal broader market demand
“If 10 people or a hundred people Were totally addicted to the software. Like that was a really good sign. Like, cause what are the chances that we found just the exact hundred people who would be completely addicted and there'd be no one else after that? So I …”
Benchling failed at enterprise sales until adding business-level data features
“And actually though, at first, like we really like struck out trying to sell anything to these companies. Like scientists have used Benchling in school. They liked it, but they weren't going to buy it. The business, like the value wasn't there. And that's when…”
Benchling sells professional services with every single customer deal
“And so we heavily employ services. We sell services with every deal we do.”