Dan Sachs

Co-Founder and CEO, Landbase · 1 appearance on the record.

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Daniel (Dan) Saks co-founded AppDirect in 2009, serving as President and co-CEO as the cloud and subscription commerce platform grew into a unicorn. In 2023, he launched Landbase, an agentic AI platform that automates B2B go-to-market workflows, where he currently serves as CEO.

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Sachs: AppDirect has raised $245 million to date

“Two hundred and forty-five million.”

Dan Sachs Mar 14, 2019 ▶ 10:25 1328 Can AppDirect with $245m in Funding Actually Go Public?

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What they said12 Episodes1

Everything Dan Sachs said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Sachs: Businesses prefer buying cloud software from a single trusted provider

“Most businesses don't necessarily want to just go online and subscribe to services. They want to buy everything they need from a trusted provider.”

Dan Sachs Mar 14, 2019 ▶ 3:14 1328 Can AppDirect with $245m in Funding Actually Go Public?

Opinion

Sachs: AppDirect sees a 'bigger opening than ever' for an IPO

“We do see it being more attractive and there's a bigger opening than ever for enterprise companies of our profile to go public.”

Dan Sachs Mar 14, 2019 ▶ 10:57 1328 Can AppDirect with $245m in Funding Actually Go Public?

Insight

Sachs: High customer retention allows flexibility on upfront sales compensation

“So if you know that your customers are signing up, there's a lot of value. You're going to stay for a long time. Then you can afford to be more flexible on the upside providing the market opportunity is really big.”

Dan Sachs Mar 14, 2019 ▶ 17:33 1328 Can AppDirect with $245m in Funding Actually Go Public?

Disclosure

Sachs: AppDirect sees high growth in transaction fees versus platform fees

“A combo of both, but definitely the platform fee was the you know, line share of the initial product. And then we see really, really high growth in the transaction fees as well.”

Dan Sachs Mar 14, 2019 ▶ 2:29 1328 Can AppDirect with $245m in Funding Actually Go Public?

Disclosure

Sachs: AppDirect powers cloud commerce for Comcast and global telcos

“We work with a lot of major telcos, Comcast and others around the world, helps them get to market faster.”

Dan Sachs Mar 14, 2019 ▶ 2:51 1328 Can AppDirect with $245m in Funding Actually Go Public?

Disclosure

Sachs: AppDirect license fees range from thousands to hundreds of thousands monthly

“Our license fees range you know, dramatically. But we have entry level, you know, perspectives that would start around a few K per month, depending on the complexity and going all the way up to, you know, the hundreds of thousands for more complex deployments.”

Dan Sachs Mar 14, 2019 ▶ 4:55 1328 Can AppDirect with $245m in Funding Actually Go Public?

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sachs: AppDirect reaches over 35 million customers globally

“So we reach now over thirty-five million customers around the world.”

Dan Sachs Mar 14, 2019 ▶ 7:27 1328 Can AppDirect with $245m in Funding Actually Go Public?

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sachs: AppDirect has millions of paid business users

“That's our reach. So that would be the customer customers of our customers that we have reached to. But we do have, you know, millions of paid business users.”

Dan Sachs Mar 14, 2019 ▶ 7:42 1328 Can AppDirect with $245m in Funding Actually Go Public?

Assertion Supported

Sachs: AppDirect has raised $245 million to date

“Two hundred and forty-five million.”

Dan Sachs Mar 14, 2019 ▶ 10:25 1328 Can AppDirect with $245m in Funding Actually Go Public?

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sachs: AppDirect grew on a 'triple, triple, double, double, double' trajectory

“We used to call this thing called like the formula one track, which is if you can go triple, triple, double, double, double, double. So for a while that was, you know, the trajectory that we're on, and now we're falling nicely into what you'd see in public com…”

Dan Sachs Mar 14, 2019 ▶ 11:59 1328 Can AppDirect with $245m in Funding Actually Go Public?

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sachs: AppDirect maintains net dollar retention above 100% across cohorts

“One of the things that's unique about us is we have a net dollar retention across our customer cohorts. So because we have, you know, the potential upside within enterprises that we sign on.”

Dan Sachs Mar 14, 2019 ▶ 12:33 1328 Can AppDirect with $245m in Funding Actually Go Public?

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sachs: AppDirect employs approximately 650 people

“So overall we're about 650 people.”

Dan Sachs Mar 14, 2019 ▶ 15:53 1328 Can AppDirect with $245m in Funding Actually Go Public?

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
1328 Can AppDirect with $245m in Funding Actually Go Public?	Mar 14, 2019	11m

Dan Sachs

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