Namely

20 statements across 2 episodes · 9 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 22, 2018 by Matt Straz · said 47 times in 8 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Mar 22, 2018 positive
Disclosure
Seat additions drive Namely's expansion more than product upsells
“Seats. Actually we thought that upsells would be a big driver of that, and there's some element to that, but it's actually people just adding more seats to the product.”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 14:20 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Namely employs over 400 people nationally
“The, we, the team nationally is over 400 employees, and I think we got a few dozen employees in Austin, and that office is one of our fastest growing.”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 1:20 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Namely's average customer size is around 200 employees
“Our average customer size is around 200 employees.”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 7:33 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018
Insight
Customer churn is the ultimate win-loss record for a software business
“Churn really tells you where you're at, ultimately tells you where you're at. So you can do all the customer data you want, right? And you can find out sentiment and all that. But ultimately at the end of the day, churn tells you whether, whether, how you're d…”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 15:32 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018
Insight
Founders shouldn't set pricing because they are too hypercritical of their products
“I think the number one advice I can give is don't let your founder set your pricing. We tend to be terrible at pricing because we always are hypercritical of our own product and don't aren't always aware of how bad the competitors products can be, or at least …”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 6:34 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018
Disclosure
Namely raised a $1M angel round at a $4M pre-money valuation
“I priced it myself. I priced it at a four million dollar pre.”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 3:58 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018 positive
Assertion Supported
Namely reached 1,000 customers by March 2018
“Today we have a thousand customers”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 9:28 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Going public is a realistic midterm business goal for Namely
“And it's one of the reasons why our midterm business goal a realistic midterm business goal would be eventually to be a public company.”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 11:19 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Namely's revenue is 100% pure SaaS without professional services
“Yeah, that's all pure SaaS.”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 16:58 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018
Assertion Supported
Mid-market HR software industry ARR churn tends to be around 20%
“Industry-wide you know, for our segment, churn tends to be around 20% a year. Logo? ARR.”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 13:29 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018
Insight
HR software companies must choose their target market size early
“I think you have to do that in this space. The product needs are very different for a small, medium and large business. So you've got to decide really early on what swim lane you're going to get going to be in.”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 7:45 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018 bullish
Assertion Supported
Namely processed $7 billion in payroll as of 2018
“And I think we're today processing seven billion dollars of payroll when people hand you one of their, yes.”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 11:02 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018
Assertion Supported
Namely has raised over $157M in total capital as of 2018
“We've raised over a hundred and fifty seven million dollars today.”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 4:28 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Namely's average ACV is around $40,000 per year
“Our average ACV at this point is around four 40,000 dollars a year, which is a good place to be. It allows salespeople to hit their OTEs.”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 7:08 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Namely basically doubled its ARR over the course of 2017
“We basically doubled our ARR this year.”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 12:16 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018 bullish
Disclosure
Namely maintains negative net churn driven by rapid customer expansion
“And in fact, we're, we have negative net churn. So our expansion is growing faster than people coming off the system.”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 14:06 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018 bullish
Assertion Supported
Namely surpassed $40M in ARR by early 2018
“Yeah, it's above that. It's above.”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 10:11 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018 positive
Disclosure
Namely prioritizes expanding within the mid-market over moving upmarket
“Every year at the end of every year, I asked myself and our team, do we want to go up market or do we want to sell more things to the same, same customer? And we always decided on the latter because we're just so passionate about midsize companies.”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 8:30 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Mar 22, 2018
Disclosure
Namely targets midsize companies with dozens to thousands of employees
“We're a SaaS company, and we provide HR payroll and benefits software and services to midsize companies. So we focus on companies with anywhere from a couple dozen to a couple thousand employees.”
Matt Straz Mar 22, 2018 ▶ 1:35 971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR
Sep 4, 2018 positive
Opinion
Skok: Namely leads mid-market HR tech while ADP is an easy target
“And to my mind, namely is the leader in that particular segment that we think is an important segment. And then if you look at the space that they're running, which is the 50 to, actually it's 20 to 2000 employees is the size range that they work in. There's r…”
David Skok Sep 4, 2018 ▶ 22:50 1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund
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