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Andrew Fischer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
117 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

Family office.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

Yeah, a group of families that came from automotive wealth based in Michigan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

And

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

uh what's unique about them is a you know they have deep pockets much like a venture investor but they are much more interested in and us building a scalable sustainable business as opposed to just being a growth story so when we raised our capital on our series a the goal wasn't

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

To get to a Series B, it was to build a sustainable company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

So we were really excited when we got profitable last year, kind of proved our overall business model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

And now we're really kind of in that scaling and growth phase.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

No, it's very much a venture-structured investment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

They just don't happen to be venture capitalists.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

So yeah, it's an equity-based investment with the goal for them to cash out upon exit, transfers of control somehow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

So we average about 5% to 7% churn monthly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

Well, it's high for if you look at traditional SaaS, but our licenses are also month-to-month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

And so our churn rate is actually, if you look at it, the cohort of our competitors is very competitive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

Most research that we can find for companies that like us are 10% or more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

And again, that's overall.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

We have a lot of clients that sign up and kind of churn out on their own.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

And when we isolate them, our healthy churn for the clients we're actually targeting is under 5%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

And again, that's still with a month-to-month license.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

Well, again, if we do some of the analysis and we separate out people that kind of sign up for our platform and churn out kind of on their own, I think we'll be at a much healthier churn level.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
727: Why People Pay Him $10m+/year or $4 on Every $10 in Ads Managed

We're very happy with our churn as it is now when we compare it against our new customer growth, when we look at our lifetime value and our average revenue per client.