Santi Biblioni, CEO of ProjectCOR, discusses company growth targets with host Nathan Latka.
Insight
Billable-hour firms face a profitability problem, not a project management problem
“What we understood is that in the billable hours market, like all companies that sell hours, Project management is not a problem. The real problem that is behind project management is projects profitability.”
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80% of ProjectCOR customers switched from horizontal tools like Asana and Trello
“80% of our current customers have switched from tools like Asana, Trello, Monday, ClickUp you name them, Jira, Trello.”
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ProjectCOR averages $19,000 ACV, with top enterprise contracts exceeding $100,000
“Today, our ACV is 19,000 dollars per year. Yeah, but of course we have, like, enterprise customers that have, like, are paying us over 100 K per year, and we have some now, we have a lot of SMBs who are paying, I don't know, like, five K a year.”
Disclosure
ProjectCOR sets sales quotas at 3.5x to 4x OTE with 50/50 splits
“Normally between 3.5 and four X quota versus OTE. So we normally do OTE half and half for sales reps. Half and half means if you have an OTE of 150 K, it's 75 salary, 75 commission. And then your quota is going to be like 3.5 or four X, that amount.”
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ProjectCOR served approximately 115 clients as of June 2021
“Today we have 115 clients more or less.”
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ProjectCOR grew 9.8% month-over-month, reaching roughly 180% year-over-year revenue growth
“We were growing at a nine, 9.8% month over month. So we, I mean, that's like kind of doing 171 180% year over year. That's like tripling revenue year over year.”