Cleeng
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Domartini: Bureaucracy starts slowing down decisions at just 100 employees
“So very important to I think resist the temptation of a form of bureaucratic model as you grow, and again, hundred employees, not like Microsoft size, but it already starts to wait on, on our capacity to decide effectively.”
Domartini: Cleeng restructured pricing by benchmarking Salesforce, Looker, and AWS
“Large part of the reorganization on pricing is when we signed the Looker, when we signed the Salesforce. You know, you really go deep as a CEO to understand, okay, but why Salesforce is building like this? Why Looker is building like this? Why AWS is being lik…”
Domartini: Over-indexing on customer centricity risks turning SaaS companies into system integrators
“By becoming customer centric, we are moving, to my liking at least, way too much as a solution integrator, system integrator type of company.”
Domartini: Cleeng Has 120% to 130% Net Dollar Retention
“From a net dollar retention. We are a 120, 130%.”
Cleeng secures over $1 million ARR per customer with per-user pricing
“So even though we work still on a pair user basis, since we go after clients with potentially millions of users, you end up with an AR of a million or more with certain clients.”
Cleeng manages 35 million accounts and $500M in gross billing
“We manage about thirty-five million accounts, half a billion in gross billing, so we became quite, ah, sizable nowadays.”
Relying on investors creates the wrong organizational behavior
“I don't want anymore to rely on investors because it creates the wrong behavior as you build your organization.”
Cleeng founders and family retained 50% equity despite VC rounds
“I'm still owning 22% of the organization. With the rest of the founders and the friends and family, we were close to 50%, and we are close to 50% today.”
Cleeng received a €14M acquisition offer during a 2019 cash crisis
“Actually, we have an offer on the table to acquire the company for fourteen million euros.”
A VC investor demanded an exit one year after funding Cleeng
“One of the investors, the one that came in actually in 18 we are facing a few challenges in in 19, and they tell us, look guys we'd like to do an exit at the time where we started to spend like crazy.”