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Dessaigne: 5% of Algolia customers generate 80% of revenue
“Enterprise is 80% of our business today. Let's say that five percent of our customers are going to bring about 80% of their revenue.”
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Dessaigne: Algolia expects to surpass $40M in ARR this year
“We crossed the, so we crossed the twenty million ARR milestone last year and pretty like we're going to close, close to double this year. So we're going to be over forty million this year.”
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Dessaigne: Algolia forced early software engineers to handle all customer support
“And so we decided very early not to have any support team, for example. Because we wanted to make sure everyone in the company was user facing and really felt the need and the pain of the customers. So support was done by engineers.”
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Dessaigne: Algolia's net retention lands between 120% and 125%
“Yeah, we're above a hundred percent. Okay. Largely above 100% retention. It's between like I mean, the return is going to end up between one 21 25, depending of like depending of the year, depending of the segment, but that's basically it.”
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Dessaigne: Algolia powers search for Medium, Twitch, and Under Armour
“We basically help developers of website apps like Medium, Twitch, Under Armour, and many users, and power their internal search. So if you search on any of these companies you basically, you are basically using us behind the scene.”
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Dessaigne: Algolia pricing scales from $35/month to upper six-figure annual contracts
“Pure play SaaS. It's only in the cloud. So it's only subscription based. We are going to have customers from Like long tail of developers that are going to self-serve on the service. We start at 35 dollars a month, and we're going also to have up to bigger ent…”
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Dessaigne: Algolia enterprise ACV ranges from $80K to $100K
“We're close to six figures in the range, like 80 to 100 K.”
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Dessaigne: Algolia maintains a 1:1 to 1:2 SDR-to-AE ratio
“It's about if I group SDRs and BDR together, we're speaking about one between one and one for one for two.”
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Dessaigne: Algolia has roughly 6,000 customers
“We're about 6000 customers right now.”
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Dessaigne: Algolia is creating a 24/7 support team but keeping engineers involved
“And as we speak, we're actually creating a support team now, dedicated support team mostly to be able to do 24 seven support and have a higher quality of support and response time. That's great. But we still ask our engineers to participate to that.”
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Dessaigne: Algolia expects roughly 30% annual customer contract expansion
“So it's going to depend about the segment industry and so on, but basically you can expect them to pay about 30% more the next year.”
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Dessaigne: Algolia's CAC payback period is close to one year
“No, no, no, we're close at one year.”
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Dessaigne: Algolia plans to raise a new funding round in 2020
“Yeah, it's going to be like probably next year. Sometime next year will raise a new run.”
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Dessaigne: All of Algolia's engineering is based in Paris
“All our engineering is is there.”