Seven Lakes will fall short of $10M ARR in 2021
Soumya Murthy · Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year? · Apr 23, 2021 · at 11:06
Soumya Murthy responds to Nathan Latka asking whether Seven Lakes Technologies can break $10 million to $12 million in ARR in 2021.
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“This year is going to be we've budgeted, no, so it won't be this year, and I'll explain a couple of reasons why last year when we remained flat, this year what we did, last year what we did was sitting down with Shiva, we said, you know what, we're going enterprise, and this is the part of the story I wanted to share.”
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