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Wu: Usage-based software companies must meter out performance optimizations to protect revenue
“Add a company that's a user-based company, take like a snowflake. That engineer is not allowed to ship that optimization. Why? Because basically if you decrease the cost of computation by 50% overnight, suddenly your revenue on your like one of two, you know, …”
Scott Wu Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 40:06 Tech Executives: AI Has Changed SaaS Forever (Don't Fall Behind)
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Wu: Public company manages $1B in usage billing entirely by hand
“We're talking to a company last week, a public company, they're in like a billion dollars in usage-based spend through enterprise contracts. All of that billion dollars is handled by hand.”
Scott Wu Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 13:57 Tech Executives: AI Has Changed SaaS Forever (Don't Fall Behind)
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Wu: Metronome requires CEO involvement for sales deals to proceed
“When we're talking to a sales deal, if I can't talk to the CEO of that company, it's not a real deal because the CEO has to be like, I'm going to take the hard path.”
Scott Wu Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 18:50 Tech Executives: AI Has Changed SaaS Forever (Don't Fall Behind)
Insight
Wu: 99% accuracy in financial billing data is equivalent to fraud
“The 99% accuracy is fraud in a financial sense, and so you actually have to have really golden data pipelines in order to solve this problem, especially at public company scale.”
Scott Wu Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 15:13 Tech Executives: AI Has Changed SaaS Forever (Don't Fall Behind)
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Wu: Most usage-based SaaS companies misalign sales commissions and revenue
“Most people just, like, they get the worst of both worlds. They basically pay you out for the million dollar contract. And then they only get to recognize revenue when the usage is accrued.”
Scott Wu Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 16:43 Tech Executives: AI Has Changed SaaS Forever (Don't Fall Behind)
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