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Andrew Yates

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
153 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

And, you know, our subscribers are paying anything from $10,000 a year to over $2 million annually is our largest contract.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

And we license the software on a per user per month basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

Contracts are annual.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

And about 68% of our ARR goal for next year or this year that we're in is currently already contracted.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

so of the 30,000, we've got, we've got, we basically had two services in the early days.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

We, we provided, um, trigger based news as a service on its own.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

Um, and that is a relatively low cost per seat type service that we licensed in the thousands to large enterprises, a company like Barclays bank, you know, 10,000 users in their enterprise and get, um, uh, a market, uh, news, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

alert every morning, push to their BlackBerry or their iPhone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

They're seats in those businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

It's about 120 enterprise customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

So that'll be about 40% growth on our run rate, our exit run rate for last year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

We made a conscious decision around about September, October last year to take down

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

the cash burn in terms of investments.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

So we're actually striving towards profitability and cash flow positivity, which we should hit around about May this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

We were regularly seeing off between $300,000 and $400,000 a month in the early days.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

We raised about $40 million of equity and debt to fund that, and that helped us drive growth in the 50% to 70% range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

Organically, we can hit 30 to 40%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

So we made a decision that we were going to, you know, just slow down the acceleration a little bit in terms of, you know, using VC money to drive that growth, artificially inseminate that market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates

Yeah, that's right.