Jaspreet Singh: Enterprise SaaS product-market fit is proven at $10M ARR
Jaspreet Singh · How to Scale from $1M to $1B & Protecting Enterprises Cloud Data Ft. Jaspreet Singh, Founder: Druva · Nov 7, 2022 · at 12:36
Jaspreet Singh, founder and CEO of enterprise cloud data protection company Druva, breaks down the milestones of scaling a SaaS company.
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“The first million typically proves that you can actually service a need. First 10 proves that there's a market for your need, right? So I think there's a fundamental belief that product market fit, right? That there's a market for the product and it's a scalable and larger market for your product. It's probably a 10 mark is the right mark for it, right? So ten million dollars you've basically proven out as a TAM for your product.”
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