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Owens: Paddle customers average 25% to 35% organic revenue growth annually
“So revenue churn is actually, so we see on average, if we aggregate all of the customers, we see about 25 to 35% growth in underlying business each year.”
Christian Owens Jan 26, 2020 ▶ 11:03 1646 Why 900 SaaS CEO's Put $200m in ARR Through Him Every Year
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Owens: Inbound channels drive 20% to 25% of Paddle's new business
“It's probably 20, 25% of new business is inbound versus the rest outbound today.”
Christian Owens Jan 26, 2020 ▶ 8:22 1646 Why 900 SaaS CEO's Put $200m in ARR Through Him Every Year
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Owens: Paddle targets a five-month customer payback period
“We target internally payback of about five months.”
Christian Owens Jan 26, 2020 ▶ 16:54 1646 Why 900 SaaS CEO's Put $200m in ARR Through Him Every Year
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Owens: Paddle's annual platform volume is under $500M
“It's less than five hundred million.”
Christian Owens Jan 26, 2020 ▶ 5:30 1646 Why 900 SaaS CEO's Put $200m in ARR Through Him Every Year
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Owens: Paddle remits sales taxes in over 40 countries
“We pay their taxes for them sort of like calculate and pay and remit sales taxes in 40 something different countries.”
Christian Owens Jan 26, 2020 ▶ 3:05 1646 Why 900 SaaS CEO's Put $200m in ARR Through Him Every Year
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Owens: Paddle raised $20M of its $24M total in the past year
“In the last like 12 months, we raised like twenty million bucks of the 24 that we raised.”
Christian Owens Jan 26, 2020 ▶ 16:27 1646 Why 900 SaaS CEO's Put $200m in ARR Through Him Every Year
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Owens: Paddle raised an initial £150k seed round from one angel
“So like actually raising capital was the first thing that we did as a business. Like can I, and it kind of comes back to kind of Patrick's point earlier, and it wasn't the initial round of money round of kind of funding, which was just a seed round from like o…”
Christian Owens Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 37:59 Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition
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