Anandan: Indian SaaS takes 7-10 years to hit $100M ARR
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Rajan Anandan outlines the revenue velocity milestones and timeline benchmarks observed in Indian SaaS companies.
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“I mean, I think you know, it still will take, you know, seven, eight, nine, 10 years to get to a hundred million net revenue, but you can get there, right? And we are now seeing companies actually prove that you can go from zero to one million ARR in less than a year. You can go from one million to ten million in two or three years, and that's a huge change that we've seen in the ecosystem.”
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