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Andy McMillian

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
202 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

But again, it goes back to things like investing in the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

We acquired a company six months ago called Truth Lab, which is about doing AI video processing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

So we're processing the videos that people do on our platform and using machine learning to help our insights come out more quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

So we're making investments in the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

We'll be making investments in international expansion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

We'll do all of those kind of based on leading indicators where I'm confident that I can grow the business comfortably and not just throw money at hope

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

and hope ARR comes at the end of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

That's just not a solid strategy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

Did that in Q4 and we'll probably do that again in Q1.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

We'll see interesting quarter right now, obviously.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

Very.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

So far, we've seen a mix.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

We've seen some people who are holding their budgets a little tight and saying, maybe we'll buy next quarter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

And so you get some deal slippage, but at the same time, as I said, we've seen this demand where we have customers calling us up and saying,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

we had a bunch of stuff we were going to do in person events and we want to move all of that onto your platform so we can stay connected with our customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

So it's pretty much balanced out for us at this point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

I'm a huge fan of the public markets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

I think it's a great way for companies to create value overall in the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

I think most great brands are public companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

I love the idea of being a public company at some point, but I don't think it's in the near term for us having just raised that round.