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Brandon Bruce

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
224 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

Yeah, we serve about 100,000 end users and those are spread across over 3,500 organizations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

We see a combination of both.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

So certainly our largest customers, which have thousands of seats, the company is paying for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

But we see a lot of bottom-up deals as well, where salespeople find the app so useful, they'll just come and pay out of pocket and expense it, or just consider a cost of doing business and earn it out in running more commission.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

So today it's $19 a user a month paid annually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

And then we just introduced a new plan, a closer plan about six weeks ago that includes some additional functionality, like the ability to mass email out to customers and some higher end calendar integration with Salesforce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

No, unfortunately not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

Yeah, it's a much bigger business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

We're looking to hit those numbers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

But our price formally four years ago when we launched was $9 user a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

And then certainly we've seen some deals that are as the number of seats increases, the price per seat decreases.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

So there's a level of volume discounting that you see

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

which is not unusual across the software as a service market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

Yeah, so MRR, we finished 2015 at around 640K MRR and ramping up from there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

We're off to a great start in 2016.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

So we compete with a lot of folks that are doing email productivity apps, which are not unusual.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

Kind of the sales acceleration space has really blown up over the last two years or so.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

Our edge has always been in the depth of integration with Salesforce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

So when companies really care about business process and workflow, that's where our area of expertise is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226

And so we serve companies wall to wall.