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Earl: Agiloft deliberately throttles marketing because hiring cannot meet demand
“So we're spending, we're deliberately spending less on sale, on marketing and sales than we could. Because if we were to spend significantly more, we wouldn't be able to meet demand. We wouldn't be able to provide the implementation services to get, to make th…”
Earl: Five-year product development cycles are too long for venture capitalists
“And fight for a VC five years from initial investment to halloworld, not an IPO, but the first product built on the platform is way too long. And of course the VCs are calling us now that we've developed it, but they tend to have a very short timeframe.”
Earl: DocuSign only handles signatures, lacking full contract lifecycle management
“It's an enterprise secure version of a living contract. DocuSign's just a signature part.”
Earl: Saturated IT service markets are much harder to scale than CLM
“And it's much, much harder to grow in that market than a relatively greenfield market like CLM. It was when we made the transition to focus on CLM to put core development expertise into building the CLM platform that growth really began to accelerate.”
Earl: Agiloft's FTV growth round valuation exceeded a 10x ARR multiple
“It was more than a 10 X multiple.”
Earl: If starting over, he might raise venture capital early on
“And if I had to do it again, maybe I'd raise capital at the beginning.”
Earl: Agiloft achieved top Gartner ranking purely through bootstrapping
“We had a round of funding from FTV about a year ago. Until then, we had no funding at all. It had grown purely through bootstrapping and actually achieved number one ranking in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, at least in the enterprise critical enterprise capabili…”
Earl: Bootstrapped Agiloft generates eight-figure annual revenue
“And I'll just say we're a fair way beyond five million or, you know, seven digits. We're into eight digits.”
Earl: Enterprise software requires 5-to-10-year planning horizons
“We see enterprise software as being more like a marathon than a sprint. And we're making decisions based upon where we need to be and where our customers need to be five, 10 years from now.”
Earl: Agiloft maintains 94% logo retention and over 100% revenue retention
“In terms of customers, it's about 94%.
In terms of logo retention or revenue retention?
Logo retention.
Okay.
In terms of revenue retention, it's over a hundred percent.
Yeah.
The existing customers purchase more than enough seats to make off from the makeup, …”
Earl: B2B contract negotiations can exceed $100K in legal fees
“Negotiating and agreeing upon one of these contracts can well cost well in excess of a 100,000 dollars in attorney fees.”
Earl: Agiloft contracts range from a few thousand to over $1M
“We don't disclose that information but it is, it's, let's say it's significant ranges from a million plus at the high end down to a few thousand at the low end.”
Earl retains largest shareholder status with under 50% ownership post-deal
“Well, I didn't keep, to be clear, I didn't keep more than 50% of the stock. I'm the largest shareholder.”
Earl: Agiloft grew new sales over 50% YoY following 40% growth
“Growth over the past year in terms of new sales has been more than 50% and the prior year was about 40%.
[301] Nathan Latka: Okay.
[301] Nathan Latka: Now, when you say year over year, 50% growth in new sales, is, do you consider upselling a current customer …”
Earl: Agiloft distributed millions to employees via FTV Capital deal
“Every employee gets some piece of equity. And, you know, when we had the investment from FDV millions of dollars went to existing employees, as well as, of course, a fair chunk to myself.”
Earl: Agiloft's average initial enterprise deal size is $45,000
“The average customer is paying us, you know, in the order of a thousand dollars per month.
Okay.
The average deal size is about 45,000 dollars.
A year?
No, for the initial implementation plus the first year of service.”
Colin Earl: Bootstrapped Agiloft has accumulated millions in cash
“Well, actually, we've accumulated several million dollars in, in cash.”
Colin Earl: Agiloft spends $30K to $50K monthly on paid acquisition
“It varies but typically something in the order of 30 to 50,000 dollars a month.”
Earl: Agiloft grew revenue 30% to 40% annually for seven years
“We've been increasing revenue at 30 to 40% per year for the past seven years.”
Earl: Agiloft customer lifetime typically exceeds 10 years
“Lifetime value for us is typically in excess of 10 years.”
Earl: Agiloft has over 1,000 company clients and 2.5M to 3M users
“In terms of companies, we have something north of a thousand in terms of users, well into the millions. 2.5, well, between 2.5 and three million at this point.”
Earl: Agiloft's average customer lifetime value is $500K to $1M
“So the lifetime value is typically in the order of half a million to a million dollars.”
Earl: Chevron uses Agiloft for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance tracking
“Chevron needs to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. That, in turn, requires auditability. It requires a mechanism for tracking how Chevron, how each individual in the company is addressing those requirements. Again, manage through Agiloft.”
Earl: Agiloft funded product development with consulting revenues
“If you bootstrap an organization, you have to develop some working capital, and we develop that by providing consultancy services. We then use that money to fund development of our first product, and then use the money from that product to fund development of …”