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Von Sydow: above.ai maintains roughly 140% net revenue retention

Gustav von Sydow · 1247 This SaaS Product Has No Website but Does $3m in ARR, How? · Dec 23, 2018 · at 5:53

Gustav von Sydow, founder of Burt and above.ai, explains customer expansion and SaaS unit economics to Nathan Latka.

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“So we're about a 140% net revenue retention.”

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