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Azam: MongoDB took 10 years to hit $100M ARR, four for $500M
“Took us about a hundred to get to a hundred million took our company about 10 years, you know, and granted, there was a lot of adoption that needed to happen there, you know, a lot of early development of our technology. So it's not a perfect apples to apples …”
Azam: Early MongoDB revenue was concentrated exclusively in large enterprises
“Where our revenue really came from was only in the top segment of the market. And the reason I bring this up is MongoDB is adoption and product market fit for our free technology. Serves the entire market, every segment, every vertical, you know, almost every …”
Azam: MongoDB had zero self-service revenue before its SaaS pivot
“And we had effectively zero self-service business. We didn't have a product that developers could come onto in a B to C like model, swipe a credit card and start consuming and a pay as you go model.”
Azam: MongoDB cloud business accounts for 47% of total company revenue
“We had our earnings call last night, you know, our cloud business is growing over. You know, year over year, it's now 47% of our total company revenue.”
Azam: Open source served as MongoDB's market-seeding and monetization foundation
“First and foremost, you know, we wanted to describe sort of how our company and our technology MongoDB really started with open source that sort of like a seeding mechanism for driving or adoption in the market. And building the foundation of the early phases …”