Churn Rate

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Langley: Flock Safety raised capital and sits at 0.1% churn
“You know, we raised more money at the beginning of the year. Companies still growing. We could be growing faster. If we used to have zero churn, now we have to your .1%.”
Garrett Langley Aug 18, 2026 ▶ 46:58 Mass Surveillance, Police Misuse, and Who Controls Your Flock Cameras with Flock CEO, Garret Langley
Cohen: Any monthly churn rate over 3% is terrible
“Anything about three percent per month cancellation is, is, is terrible.”
Jason Cohen Jan 25, 2026 ▶ 13:41 The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
Cohen: A SaaS company's maximum size is new additions divided by churn
“There's this maximum size you could ever be. It's when churn equals growth, right? Like that's the, So how would you compute that? It's actually quite simple because let's say you have this five percent per month, just let's take a number. So it's simply the a…”
Jason Cohen Jan 25, 2026 ▶ 16:23 The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
Walling: SaaS Revenue Plateau Equals New Monthly MRR Divided by Churn
“The math for calculating your plateau, you know, which is the new MRR in a given month divided by your churn rate.”
Rob Walling Jun 24, 2025 ▶ 10:09 Episode 780 | "I'll Never Sell My Company" and Other Myths Founde...
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Alan D'Souza: ReachInbox Monthly Logo Churn Is Around 7% to 7.5%
“Churn rate in our industry is also pretty high, but thankfully we are at a single digit churn rate. We are in the we are around seven to 7.5% churn rate right now.”
Alan D'Souza Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 8:18 How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)
Beckord: Startup Founders Are Poor, Cheap, And Yield High Churn
“One of the challenges of my business is founders are pretty poor. They're cheap. They're poor. They go out of business. There's a higher churn rate.”
Nathan Beckord May 12, 2025 ▶ 19:58 Mastering Startup Fundraising: Insights from FounderSuite CEO Nathan Beckford
20VC Insight
Roberge: Startups cannot accurately assess customer churn rate for 5 years
“Like, you don't know your churn rate really for five years or more, so you have to make some pretty heavy assumptions there.”
Mark Roberge Jul 12, 2024 ▶ 26:09 Mark Roberge: The Framework for How Startups Should Scale into the Enterprise -Stage 2 Capital|E1176 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Delivet: Good onboarding reduces annual churn by 5 to 10 points
“And if you do a good customer onboarding process, you can, it can help you reduce your annual churn rate by five to 10 points.”
Alex Delivet Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 6:26 Tips for Creating a $1m Customer Onboarding Experience
Rike: CLTV:CAC is meaningless without at least one to two renewal cycles
“If you haven't had at least one, but more and more appropriately, two renewal cycles, this is a meaningless metric. Why? Because you really don't know what your churn rate is.”
Ray Rike Jun 19, 2023 ▶ 17:22 Top 5 SaaS Performance & Revenue Efficiency Metrics that Matter in 2023
Campbell: SaaS retention is highest for daily tools and background automation
“When we look at churn rates across different types of products, those products that are workflow products you use every single day or mostly every single day, or those products you don't have to log into, but you still get the value. That's where the lowest ch…”
Patrick Campbell Feb 19, 2023 ▶ 28:19 10 lessons on bootstrapping a $200m business | Patrick Campbell (ProfitWell)
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Folderly's Monthly Churn Averages 10-15%, Spiking to 25% in Summer
“Our churn it was 10, the July and August, it went under 25 because of the summer and, like, cutting costs of the budgets until the September and other business months. But our average churn rate is 10, maximum 15.”
Vladislav Podolyako Sep 17, 2021 ▶ 11:28 Folderly Email Deliverability SaaS Hits $1.56m ARR In Under 9 Months, Bootstrapped
Universal product churn is healthy if non-target users are the ones leaving
“When you're a company like us, the product is email. Everyone can use email. So there's a lot of people trying the product. And some of those will churn, and that's a good thing, right? Because we cannot be a solution for everyone. So if I only look at churn, …”
Phil Liu May 4, 2021 ▶ 15:36 How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People
SAASTR Insight
Kellogg: ARR is a fact while churn rates are an opinion
“There's a semi-famous quote that but cash is a fact, profit is an opinion. I feel the same way about ARR and churn, that ARR is a fact churn, And churn rates are an opinion.”
Dave Kellogg Jan 10, 2021 ▶ 30:29 Churn is dead. Long live Net Dollar Retention Rate with Dave Kellogg | SaaStr Software Community
SAASTR Insight
Lemkin: SaaS sales cycles and churn rates are highly correlated
“Sales cycles and churn rates are highly correlated.”
Jason Lemkin Mar 18, 2020 ▶ 36:18 Webinar: What It Was Like in '08-'09. And We Can Learn for '20.
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Rossi: Buzzsprout maintains a monthly logo churn rate between 1% and 2%
“Less than two percent. Yeah. Yeah. Our churn per month is somewhere between one and two percent.”
Tom Rossi Aug 26, 2019 ▶ 13:48 1493 How Podast Hosting Company Buzzsprout Passed $15k in MRR, 1000 Customers, Bootstrapped
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Unilog maintains an incredibly low annual churn rate of under 0.5%.
“I mean, we, our churn is less than half a percent.”
Suchit Bachali Aug 21, 2019 ▶ 8:21 1488 ECommerce Solution Hits $8m in ARR and $8m in Services, Raising $20m on $60m pre?
SAASTR Insight
Princen: 10% monthly churn in low-touch SaaS means zero product-market fit
“Two percent is a very good monthly churn for a low touch type business. Five percent is okay. 10% is a problem. 10% basically means you don't have any product market fill market fit and your business is, you know, is not sustainable.”
Guillaume Princen Oct 11, 2018 ▶ 15:12 SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe
Chopra: Monthly logo churn above 3% is bad for SaaS
“So, I mean, you can talk about anything, say, above three percent as a bad churn. At least that's how I look at things.”
Paras Chopra May 21, 2018 ▶ 6:24 1031 How VWO Bootstrapped to $15m+
SAASTR Assertion Not checkable as stated
Roberge: HubSpot Suffered an 8% Monthly Churn Rate at $2.5M ARR
“Eight months later, it was looking good. We probably were doing two and a half million at that point. We had, you know 10, 12 reps. But churn was eight percent a month.”
Mark Roberge Jul 26, 2017 ▶ 13:18 Sales Mistakes that Can Kill Your SaaS Business & How to Avoid Them
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Korber: BreezoMeter's annual customer churn is under 5%
“Yeah, less, less than five percent.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 17:14 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
KnowBe4 has an annual customer churn rate of 15%
“Our churn is only 15%. Annually.”
Stu Sjouwerman Jul 10, 2017 ▶ 9:14 716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year
Wille: Paid advertising accelerates growth but lowers conversion and raises churn
“As soon as you start pushing on the gas and you start advertising, you get a slightly different mix. Now it's still important and it's important from a growth point of view, but you have to acknowledge that one of the outcomes, one of the negative side effects…”
Allan Wille Jul 4, 2017 ▶ 15:12 710: How This SaaS Company is Using $20 Million to Scale

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