Software Companies Average Three Distinct Products at the Time of IPO
Christine Edmonds · How to Scale Go-to-Market Through IPO with ICONIQ Growth's General Partners · Nov 30, 2023 · at 26:22
Christine Edmonds, Head of Analytics at ICONIQ Growth, discusses product suite diversification benchmarks for software companies entering the public markets.
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“Cross-sell obviously requires a more diverse product suite, and what you can see along the bottom here is, on average, companies at the IPO stage have three products.”
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