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Alex Schutman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
230 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

It's great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

You get the T-shirt, you get the cupcake.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

But the next day, you still got to be a great company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

So let's go be a great company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

And then what's great is if you build a great company, when you go public, you just never disappoint.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

Because the worst thing is to go public and disappoint.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

I think that's a good statement.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

I think there's two great value statements.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

One is you're right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

It is easier and quote unquote safer for some people to buy software from a public company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

I also think that it gives you a lot of options for how you think about compensating your employees.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

So I think there's some things you can do as a public company in terms of compensating your employees.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

So those are probably the two things that that we look at, you know, is maybe if we can take better care of our employees, then that's a that's a good reason for us to do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

Well, net negative.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

I mean, if you look if you're talking about net dollar retention rate, we're well over a dollar.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

So that's what, when I say net dollar, sorry, net dollar retention rate for me, that same store sales, anything like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

We're, we're,