Sturges: AskHR closes five-to-six-figure deals and has two 50,000-seat customers
James Sturges · 1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1 · Dec 28, 2019 · at 10:24
AskHR co-founder James Sturges describes the startup's customer base, contract sizes, and seat counts across its enterprise deployments.
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“From a revenue standpoint, we typically do probably five to six figure deals with those customers. And some of that will be our current product. And some of that will be sort of service based customer software that we're integrating on top of that. So integrating with, you know, other systems and things like that, those customers range from one to 2000 people to 10,000 plus. Right. And we even have two that are sort of above the 50 50,000 seat customer.”
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