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Matt Watson

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

Insight
Writing code is easy assembly work compared to product management
“You know, the most valuable part of it is the product product division, product management side of it. Writing the code is easy. That's like assembly work. Like, Manufacturing work, right? Almost. It's the knowing what to write and how it's supposed to work. T…”
Matt Watson Apr 30, 2019 ▶ 17:11 1375 NewRelic Competitor Hits $2m in ARR, 900 Customers, Growing 80% yoy
Disclosure
Stackify acquired Honeywell as a customer entirely through organic inbound search
“Like we have somebody like Honeywell as a client, but we don't call on the CIO of Honeywell to try and sell them our software. They find us the same way anybody else does. They go to Google and search for different things, and they run across our product”
Matt Watson Apr 30, 2019 ▶ 13:35 1375 NewRelic Competitor Hits $2m in ARR, 900 Customers, Growing 80% yoy
Assertion Not checkable as stated
New Relic and AppDynamics focus almost exclusively on large enterprise accounts
“New Relic, AppDynamics companies like that. So they're all focused on the large enterprise accounts kind of exclusively, and most of our customers are SMB. They're more mid-market companies.”
Matt Watson Apr 30, 2019 ▶ 14:31 1375 NewRelic Competitor Hits $2m in ARR, 900 Customers, Growing 80% yoy
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Stackify is growing approximately 80% year over year
“We've grown about 80% year over year.”
Matt Watson Apr 30, 2019 ▶ 4:21 1375 NewRelic Competitor Hits $2m in ARR, 900 Customers, Growing 80% yoy
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Stackify has 85% to 90% logo retention and net negative churn
“So an actual customer base, we probably retain 85 to 90% of the customers. And then the ones that stay all grow. And so the ones that stay spend more money than the ones that we lost.”
Matt Watson Apr 30, 2019 ▶ 5:59 1375 NewRelic Competitor Hits $2m in ARR, 900 Customers, Growing 80% yoy
Disclosure
Stackify avoids paid ads, keeping CAC to a few hundred dollars
“It's a few hundred dollars, but we don't do really paid advertising, so it's not a number that we really focus on.”
Matt Watson Apr 30, 2019 ▶ 8:17 1375 NewRelic Competitor Hits $2m in ARR, 900 Customers, Growing 80% yoy
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stackify drives 800,000 monthly website visitors through content marketing
“We get about 800,000 people a month on our website from our content marketing and stuff that we do.”
Matt Watson Apr 30, 2019 ▶ 9:04 1375 NewRelic Competitor Hits $2m in ARR, 900 Customers, Growing 80% yoy
Disclosure
Stackify has enterprise customers paying over $100,000 per year
“You do have some customers that pay you more than a hundred grand per year. [802] Matt Watson: Yeah, we do.”
Matt Watson Apr 30, 2019 ▶ 13:19 1375 NewRelic Competitor Hits $2m in ARR, 900 Customers, Growing 80% yoy
Disclosure
About 70% of Stackify's revenue comes from international customers
“About 70% of our business is international.”
Matt Watson Apr 30, 2019 ▶ 13:30 1375 NewRelic Competitor Hits $2m in ARR, 900 Customers, Growing 80% yoy
Disclosure
Matt Watson self-funded Stackify entirely before raising a $3M round
“I funded all of it until a year ago. We did a three million dollar round then.”
Matt Watson Apr 30, 2019 ▶ 15:24 1375 NewRelic Competitor Hits $2m in ARR, 900 Customers, Growing 80% yoy
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stackify has nearly 900 global subscription customers
“We're a SaaS company. We have almost 900 customers all over the world that just pay us a monthly subscription for using our tools.”
Matt Watson Apr 30, 2019 ▶ 3:46 1375 NewRelic Competitor Hits $2m in ARR, 900 Customers, Growing 80% yoy
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stackify employs 20 people in Kansas City and 20 in the Philippines
“We have about 20 people in our office in the Kansas City, and then we have about 20 more in the Philippines.”
Matt Watson Apr 30, 2019 ▶ 8:29 1375 NewRelic Competitor Hits $2m in ARR, 900 Customers, Growing 80% yoy

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
1375 NewRelic Competitor Hits $2m in ARR, 900 Customers, Growing 80% yoy Apr 30, 2019 6m
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