Everything Anand Jain said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
American Customers Buy Over Zoom, Removing the Need for Founder Relocation
“You have to be clear on why you want to move to the US, right? It is definitely not for sales. America is a market that does not want to see you in person, right? They're happy to buy products online through Zoom, through, you know, like they, they're absolute…”
Jain Predicts 25 to 30 Indian SaaS US IPOs by 2025
“So I think three to four years, you will see a whole more companies probably I don't know, 25, 30 companies IPO-ing from India in the US.”
CleverTap Reaches $45M ARR With a 120% Net Retention Rate
“Today, fast forward, like, you know, five and a half years later Clevertap is at forty five million dollars of ARR. And we run our business with extremely strong gross margin and extremely high net retention rate of 120%.”
Jain: Relocate to new markets to learn, not to sell
“So depending upon where you think your majority of your customers are going to come from, you have to go learn from that market, not to sell, but to learn. Once you learn, you can always sell, but converse is not true.”
Jain: CleverTap spent first 3 years building unified data layer
“What we did in the first three years of our startup life is what we build this unified data layer, this one data layer through which you can accumulate data from multiple sources. So your contact center data, your you know data that's coming from your apps, fr…”
CleverTap Hit $1.6M ARR in Year One Without Formal Contracts
“In the first year, hustle got me you know, 1.6 million dollars, right? It was, there was no method to the madness if I can use that. It was just me and a couple of other guys, and we were going all over the town, showing the product, signing up customers In a …”
CleverTap generates 65% of revenue from India and Southeast Asia
“In terms of split, I would say about 65% of revenue comes from India plus Southeast Asia. The rest of the 35% comes from the rest of the world for us.”
CleverTap Raised Two Venture Rounds With $0 ARR in 30 Months
“The first 30 months, we were building the core product. There was zero error in the company. And guess what? We raised two rounds of funding during that time. So we had some very good investors. We had Axel and Sequoia that backed us during that time.”
CleverTap Raised Series B and C Rounds 4-5 Months Apart in 2019
“In 2019, there is two rounds of capital back to back of around B and C literally four or five months apart from each other.”
Jain: A Single CleverTap Customer Sends Over Two Trillion Data Points Monthly
“One of my customers sends me over two trillion data points every month. That is just one of my customers.”
Jain: None of CleverTap's three co-founders are marketers
“I'm not a marketer and neither are my other two founders marketers, but we were the engineers that had to stitch these products, multiple products together.”