annual recurring revenue
also referred to as: arr
7 statements across 7 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 26, 2022 by David Sacks · across every show →
Everything said about annual recurring revenue, oldest first
Mar 26, 2022
Sacks: A startup burn multiple above 3 is bad
“If you can spend a dollar or less to generate an Incremental dollar of ARR. You're doing amazing. And between one and two is good. So in other words, if you're burning twenty million in a year to add an incremental ten million of ARR, you're doing quite well i…”
Sep 17, 2022 bullish
Dec 8, 2023 neutral
Chamath: PE buyers pay 1x-5x ARR for software companies
“And what I would tell you is that even for companies that are in the hundreds of millions of ARR, the premiums that they're willing to pay are between three and five times ARR at the high end. And that a lot of deals get transacted between one and three times …”
Apr 24, 2026 neutral
May 8, 2026 bullish
Sacks: Anthropic ARR reached $44 billion in April 2026
“First, we find out that from January first to March 31st, they grew from Roughly ten billion of ARR to thirty billion, so it tripled. And then in April, if anything, the rate of increase seemed to accelerate. They went from 30 to forty-four billion of ARR.”
May 22, 2026 bullish
Jul 30, 2026 bullish