Sachs: AppDirect grew on a 'triple, triple, double, double, double' trajectory
Dan Sachs · 1328 Can AppDirect with $245m in Funding Actually Go Public? · Mar 14, 2019 · at 11:59
AppDirect Co-CEO Dan Sachs describes the company's revenue growth trajectory from early hypergrowth to public-comparable rates.
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“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 comps in terms of growth rates for benchmarks.”
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