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Gill: SaaS sales spending represents investments in future recurring revenue
“Fundamentally, if you're looking at the sales and marketing expense on the P and L of a SAS company, you're comparing that to the revenue this period on the P and L of the SAS company, you're comparing the wrong thing, right? You're comparing an investment tha…”
Ron Gill Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:55 a16z Podcast | Why SaaS Revenue is Worth More Than Traditional Software Sales
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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
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