SaaS company

6 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Nov 1, 2017 by John Strauss · across every show →

Everything said about SaaS company, oldest first

Nov 1, 2017 negative
Insight
Stross: Visionary founders without product backgrounds struggle to direct engineering tasks
“The trap that companies will fall into is, ah, that you've got the CEO with some vision of, like, here's this customer problem, and I'm gonna build this product. But they've never actually been a product person, and breaking down that kind of generic vision in…”
John Strauss Nov 1, 2017 ▶ 9:21 What a Great VP of Product Really Does | SaaStr
Jan 3, 2018 negative
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Stewart: SaaS startups must strictly avoid IP assignment rights in enterprise contracts
“Absolutely no IP assignment rights, and these are ones that are important, guys, right? And because large enterprise companies will be really sneaky about that and try to stick that in there, i.e., you build a feature for them, they own it, or it can make an a…”
Jon Stewart Jan 3, 2018 ▶ 24:44 Secrets to Closing Your First 6 Figure Deal
Oct 29, 2021 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: Average SaaS Company at IPO Has $100M ARR and 1,000 Employees
“We know based on publicly available data that that at IPO, that the average sort of SaaS company at IPO has about a thousand employees and about a hundred million of ARR. So that ends up being about a 100,000 dollars of ARR per employee, and we can kind of wor…”
David Sacks Oct 29, 2021 ▶ 2:04 The SaaS Org Chart by Series with David Sacks, Co-founder and General Partner at Craft Ventures
Dec 16, 2021
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Mickos: SaaS companies cannot succeed without getting pricing right
“There is no successful SaaS company that doesn't have good pricing. Like, it's completely impossible for you to succeed by whatever metric you have if your pricing isn't more or less right.”
Mårten Mickos Dec 16, 2021 ▶ 1:33 Picking the Perfect Pricing Model that Fits Your App and More with HackerOne's CEO Marten Mickos
Jun 24, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: The average SaaS product competes among 200 internal B2B apps
“The average SaaS company is one of 200 B to B apps deployed in their org.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 24, 2022 ▶ 23:55 16 Ways to Level Up in 2022 with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin | SaaStr Software Community
Oct 25, 2023 bullish
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Lemkin: Private equity will buy any break-even SaaS company over $20M ARR
“Private equity firms will buy any SaaS company with high NRR that are break even north of twenty million.”
Jason Lemkin Oct 25, 2023 ▶ 35:32 What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024
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