Marco Saric describes inbound VC interest and Plausible's commitment to remaining bootstrapped.
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Saric: Open source is essential for privacy-first software to build trust
“I think open source and privacy first, they kind of go together hand in hand. I think if you want to be able to be transparent and trustworthy, you gotta show what you're doing, and kind of, you cannot be, like, Google, our biggest competitor, Google Analytics…”
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Saric: Startups make a big mistake hiding their incumbent competitors
“I feel that that's one of the biggest mistakes startups do, because they kind of try to hide the fact that this big company exists, you know, while all of their potential customers know that there is this company that exists. So why not help your potential cus…”
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Saric: Product analytics tools charge significantly more per pageview than web analytics
“I think in general, web analytics are a bit more affordable than, say, product analytics, so even when people come from something like a mixed panel and things like that, they're kind of like, They feel, feel comfortable in this kind of price range because, yo…”
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Saric: Plausible grew MRR from $400 to $23,300 in one year
“I think we were, MRR was about 400 or something when I joined. So April last year, about 400.
Nathan Latka: And now we're about.
Nathan Latka: 400 dollars per month?
Marco Saric: MRR, yes.
Nathan Latka: In total MRR? Total, 400.
Nathan Latka: Yeah.
Marco Saric…”
Disclosure
Saric: Plausible will not hire short-term because onboarding slows growth
“I don't think there's a need short term, at least to hire anyone. It might even slow us down, you know, obviously be training and so on.”
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Saric: Plausible's largest customer pays around $600 monthly for 150M views
“It's actually, that's the 150,000,001, but what are they paying per month? I think it's somewhere around 600 per month, something like that, but don't, could be somewhere, somewhere there. I'm not a hundred percent sure.”