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Nicolas Dessaigne

Group Partner, Y Combinator · 1 appearance on the record.

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Nicolas Dessaigne co-founded the search API company Algolia in 2012, serving as its CEO through its Y Combinator batch and scaling the business before stepping down in 2020. In 2021, he joined Y Combinator as a Group Partner, where he coaches early-stage startup cohorts.

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Dessaigne: 5% of Algolia customers generate 80% of revenue
“Enterprise is 80% of our business today. Let's say that five percent of our customers are going to bring about 80% of their revenue.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 3, 2019 ▶ 2:23 1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month
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Dessaigne: Algolia expects to surpass $40M in ARR this year
“We crossed the, so we crossed the twenty million ARR milestone last year and pretty like we're going to close, close to double this year. So we're going to be over forty million this year.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 3, 2019 ▶ 5:39 1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month
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Dessaigne: Algolia forced early software engineers to handle all customer support
“And so we decided very early not to have any support team, for example. Because we wanted to make sure everyone in the company was user facing and really felt the need and the pain of the customers. So support was done by engineers.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 3, 2019 ▶ 7:30 1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month
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Dessaigne: Algolia's net retention lands between 120% and 125%
“Yeah, we're above a hundred percent. Okay. Largely above 100% retention. It's between like I mean, the return is going to end up between one 21 25, depending of like depending of the year, depending of the segment, but that's basically it.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 3, 2019 ▶ 11:45 1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month
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Dessaigne: Algolia powers search for Medium, Twitch, and Under Armour
“We basically help developers of website apps like Medium, Twitch, Under Armour, and many users, and power their internal search. So if you search on any of these companies you basically, you are basically using us behind the scene.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 3, 2019 ▶ 1:16 1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month
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Dessaigne: Algolia pricing scales from $35/month to upper six-figure annual contracts
“Pure play SaaS. It's only in the cloud. So it's only subscription based. We are going to have customers from Like long tail of developers that are going to self-serve on the service. We start at 35 dollars a month, and we're going also to have up to bigger ent…”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 3, 2019 ▶ 1:37 1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month
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Dessaigne: Algolia enterprise ACV ranges from $80K to $100K
“We're close to six figures in the range, like 80 to 100 K.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 3, 2019 ▶ 2:41 1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month
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Dessaigne: Algolia maintains a 1:1 to 1:2 SDR-to-AE ratio
“It's about if I group SDRs and BDR together, we're speaking about one between one and one for one for two.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 3, 2019 ▶ 3:27 1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month
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Dessaigne: Algolia has roughly 6,000 customers
“We're about 6000 customers right now.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 3, 2019 ▶ 4:52 1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month
Disclosure
Dessaigne: Algolia is creating a 24/7 support team but keeping engineers involved
“And as we speak, we're actually creating a support team now, dedicated support team mostly to be able to do 24 seven support and have a higher quality of support and response time. That's great. But we still ask our engineers to participate to that.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 3, 2019 ▶ 8:56 1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month
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Dessaigne: Algolia expects roughly 30% annual customer contract expansion
“So it's going to depend about the segment industry and so on, but basically you can expect them to pay about 30% more the next year.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 3, 2019 ▶ 10:16 1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month
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Dessaigne: Algolia's CAC payback period is close to one year
“No, no, no, we're close at one year.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 3, 2019 ▶ 13:20 1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month
Disclosure
Dessaigne: Algolia plans to raise a new funding round in 2020
“Yeah, it's going to be like probably next year. Sometime next year will raise a new run.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 3, 2019 ▶ 13:43 1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month
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Dessaigne: All of Algolia's engineering is based in Paris
“All our engineering is is there.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Nov 3, 2019 ▶ 4:37 1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

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1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month Nov 3, 2019 8m
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