Looker

includes Looker Studio

12 statements across 6 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement May 3, 2018 by Frank Bien · said 617 times in 342 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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May 3, 2018 positive
Disclosure
Looker avoids the downmarket to target enterprise growth modeled on ServiceNow.
“Yeah, we probably don't chase down market very much. I think, you know, if you were to look at us, you'd say, hey, you know, let's be probably a little bit smaller, but let's go after something like ServiceNow.”
Frank Bien May 3, 2018 ▶ 16:43 1013 Guess How This Data Tool Will Break $100m In 2018
May 3, 2018 neutral
Disclosure
Looker relies on inside sales for roughly 80 percent of its revenue.
“We're about 80% inside sales. So it's an inside sales SaaS motion.”
Frank Bien May 3, 2018 ▶ 6:51 1013 Guess How This Data Tool Will Break $100m In 2018
May 3, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Looker sees 125 percent net revenue retention among enterprise customers.
“Oh, so you'll see like, you know, -25% on a cohort, you know, in the bigger customers.”
Frank Bien May 3, 2018 ▶ 10:41 1013 Guess How This Data Tool Will Break $100m In 2018
May 3, 2018 neutral
Disclosure
Looker targets a CAC payback period of under 18 months.
“We would look a little bit like a Marketo looked originally or something like that, but if it's more than 18 months, you know, we start to worry.”
Frank Bien May 3, 2018 ▶ 7:17 1013 Guess How This Data Tool Will Break $100m In 2018
May 3, 2018
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Looker has reached between 1,200 and 1,300 total customers.
“Yeah, so we're about 1200 customers, maybe 1300 now, somewhere in there, but, you know, we're growing really nicely.”
Frank Bien May 3, 2018 ▶ 4:23 1013 Guess How This Data Tool Will Break $100m In 2018
May 3, 2018
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Looker's customer contracts range from $30,000 to $1 million annually.
“Yeah, I mean, our average customers, you know, the low end would be about 30,000 dollars a year, and the high end would be a million.”
Frank Bien May 3, 2018 ▶ 2:41 1013 Guess How This Data Tool Will Break $100m In 2018
May 3, 2018
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Looker is growing its revenue by more than 50 percent year-over-year.
“You know, we don't go specific, but more than 50, that's for sure.”
Frank Bien May 3, 2018 ▶ 4:33 1013 Guess How This Data Tool Will Break $100m In 2018
Apr 17, 2019
Assertion Supported
Reich: Troops AI counts WeWork, Slack, Square, and Flexport as customers
“Some of our customers include guys like WeWork, Looker, Slack, Envision, Flexport, Square.”
Dan Reich Apr 17, 2019 ▶ 10:22 1362 How Troops AI Became #1 Slack Integration, $1m+ in ARR, $17m Raised
Jun 14, 2020 positive
Opinion
Moore: Looker won the BI market hands down with $2.6B sale
“Looker just got bought for two, 2.6 billion. And the consensus was basically like we fucked up. Yeah. They won hands down with that number.”
Bob Moore Jun 14, 2020 ▶ 10:28 RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker
Oct 18, 2021 neutral
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Steer: Looker and Tableau are Mode's most frequent competitors
“Yeah, those are the two that we see most frequently.”
Derek Steer Oct 18, 2021 ▶ 7:28 Can Mode Beat Looker? 140% Net Dollar Retention and 600+ Customers Say Yes!
May 30, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Moore: Selling Stitch for $60M Was a $2.6 Billion Mistake
“Oh, and by the way, my 2.6 billion dollar mistake, which was the headline here, very shortly thereafter, Looker gets acquired by Google for 2.6 billion dollars.”
Bob Moore May 30, 2024 ▶ 15:26 How to Sell your Company for $60m (from a Founder who did it)
Jun 20, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Domartini: Cleeng restructured pricing by benchmarking Salesforce, Looker, and AWS
“Large part of the reorganization on pricing is when we signed the Looker, when we signed the Salesforce. You know, you really go deep as a CEO to understand, okay, but why Salesforce is building like this? Why Looker is building like this? Why AWS is being lik…”
Gilles Domartini Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 18:35 Founder Does $18m in 2023 Revenue Following 9 Strange SaaS Playbooks
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