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Andre Merkley

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
157 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

It's a bit...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

It's somewhat more in the first year and a bit less in the second and third year, and then it ceases.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

No, it stops.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

Perpetual commissions are a killer for the business because sooner or later, your partner will...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

start treating that investment as a pension fund and will lose incentive to sell more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

And it's a debt spiral.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

Year one or year three, it really depends on deal to deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

It also depends on the uptake.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

You cannot work

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

Usually you don't implement our system in a big bank.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

You would start first getting the materials under control, the quantities, then going into the fixing, ordering, then HR and stuff like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

So it would be an onion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

And depending on that onion would also give you a commission plan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

Stock exchange value is, I would say, in the low 20s.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

No, absolutely not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

Because, well, several things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

First, I believe that the business is worth much, much more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DataLab Hits $15m Revenue Charging Farmers Price Per Cow, Largest ACV $100,000

How much?