churn
17 statements across 11 episodes · 6 bullish · 5 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Jul 26, 2017 by Mark Roberge · across every show →
Everything said about churn, oldest first
Jul 26, 2017 positive
Oct 9, 2018 positive
Hale: Detractors predict churn, advocacy predicts growth, and purchasing questions predict ARPU
“NPS is really great because it helps you predict where churn is. It's, it, you know, if you have, ah, detractors, it's really, it helps you identify who's gonna churn. Advocacy really helps drive, you know, this is, would you recommend this product or service.…”
Jul 24, 2019 positive
Aug 1, 2019 negative
Egnyte considers customers below 85% adoption within nine months a churn risk
“So we measure adoption, and we measure adoption three months from sale, six months from sale, nine months from sale. If you're not 85% or so consumed of the services that you purchased, Then we got alarm bells going off and trying to figure out how to rectify …”
Aug 1, 2019
Jan 10, 2021 neutral
Kellogg: PE firms recalculate all SaaS metrics from raw data
“In the VC side, frankly, I don't see as much recalculation, but when you meet PE people, they will literally take all your financials and just recalculate everything. You know, you're going to say your churn is, you know, only 10%. They're like, well, we'll fi…”
Jan 10, 2021 negative
Jan 10, 2021 positive
Jan 14, 2021 neutral
Willey: ForgeRock treats contract reductions lasting over six months as formal churn
“How, how we typically look at it is if there's a temporary reduction for a short period of time, let's say within, within the six month period, as long as at the end of that period, the customer is, is effectively renewing the full amount and kind of go get, g…”
Jan 14, 2021
Jan 14, 2021 neutral
Webb: SolarWinds uses varied churn grace periods ranging from real-time to months
“In our case, we have different timing across different business units. One of our business units uses three months. One of our business units uses 30 days. And the other one is more of a real time whether we take, take churn on it or not, and then classify it …”
Jan 14, 2021 positive
Willey: Lack of standardized SaaS churn accounting will face increasing industry scrutiny
“And unfortunately there isn't right now, you know, Gemini accept the counted principles for how to define churn. So I think it's going to be one of those things that as more and more businesses become cloud orientated, SAS orientated, ultimately customer succe…”
Feb 16, 2023
Fox: Brex customers using competitor products were most likely to churn
“The customers that were most likely to churn were those customers that were still using other competitor products, right? So they were using other credit cards. They were using other bank accounts. And we realized that when we would speak to these customers, t…”
Aug 3, 2023 negative
Sep 27, 2024 positive
Plank: Rippling tied AM comp to retention and massively beat churn baselines
“And we're going to actually tie comp to retention as a number. And like, just dramatically changed the behavior and the impact and results this year. Like our baseline of churn and from the account management org is like just a number that we just massively be…”
Mar 7, 2025 negative
Aug 25, 2025 negative
Lemkin: Top-producing SMB sales reps often cause the highest churn
“He put the data in Snowflake, and he's like, okay, let me compare that to churn. And he found out the very best sales reps in the SMB motion had the highest churn, because they were shoving deals down the pipe. And so actually, none of the best reps were his b…”