Lessonly adds over $1 of ARR per $1 of cash burned
Max Yoder · 891 SaaS: Lessonly Hits $6m+ ARR for Internal, Non-HR Solution for Team Learning · Jan 1, 2018 · at 5:25
Max Yoder, co-founder and CEO of Lessonly, describes the company's capital efficiency and burn-to-ARR ratio to Nathan Latka.
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“Our goal is always to make sure that if we're going to burn a dollar of cash it's going to create more than a dollar of annual recurring revenue. And we've done that ever since.”
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