Druva signed its first $1M ACV customer within eight months of launch
Jaspreet Singh · How to Scale from $1M to $1B & Protecting Enterprises Cloud Data Ft. Jaspreet Singh, Founder: Druva · Nov 7, 2022 · at 6:32
Jaspreet Singh, founder and CEO of Druva, discusses the early traction and timeline of Druva's transition from on-premises software to cloud-native SaaS.
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“We started selling the cloud version in, it was in 13th, it said, I think I would say March, March of 13th, if my memory serves me right. And I think by December in seven to eight months, like we had a first million dollar ACV customer.”
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