Alex Ferrara

4 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 30, 2019 by Alex Ferrara · across every show →

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Oct 30, 2019 positive
Insight
Ferrara: Net new ARR divided by burn beats Rule of 40 under $30M ARR
“We've found that it's not really as relevant for earlier stage companies. So, companies below thirty million of ARR We tend to find that a much better way of measuring efficiency is through looking at this, ah, score of net new ARR divided by cash burn.”
Alex Ferrara Oct 30, 2019 ▶ 24:07 State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition | SaaStr Software Community
Oct 30, 2019 bullish
Prediction Held up
Ferrara: 2019 cloud IPO market cap will meet or beat 2018's $44B
“And so, we're expecting that 2019 will likely either exceed, or sorry, rather meet or exceed Ah, the same metrics from, ah, the same stat from 2014, 2018, rather.”
Alex Ferrara Oct 30, 2019 ▶ 8:24 State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition | SaaStr Software Community
Oct 30, 2019 positive
Insight
Ferrara: A 0.5x to 1.5x net ARR to burn ratio is very good
“Again, having gone through a large data set, we typically saw that something between 0.5 X and one and a half X represented a very good score, and some of the best companies, as we'll see, have scores above that.”
Alex Ferrara Oct 30, 2019 ▶ 25:07 State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition | SaaStr Software Community
Oct 30, 2019 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Ferrara: Shopify grew ARR from $12M to $24M on just $2M burn in 2011
“One example I'll give of one of the best companies out there on this metric was Shopify, which is a company that in around 2011 had about twelve million of ARR. Over the next 12 months, they added Another twelve million of ARR, and it cost them two million to …”
Alex Ferrara Oct 30, 2019 ▶ 25:18 State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition | SaaStr Software Community
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