Gross: Vimeo has customers spending over $1M annually
Adam Gross · What It’s Like Running a Profitable $400M Public SaaS Company with Vimeo CEO Adam Gross · Mar 15, 2024 · at 8:26
Vimeo CEO Adam Gross describes how the company monetizes top enterprise accounts derived from self-serve adoption.
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“We even have customers that spend over a million dollars a year with us.”
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