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Chris Straw

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
182 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

We were looking at more like a...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

you know, 30 to 60K ACV.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

And finding out that people just weren't used to buying this as a SaaS tool was a big realization for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

And it took us a couple of months to figure that out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

It was really May or June that we sort of changed go-to-market tactics where we said, hey, you know, our customer acquisition strategy for these larger accounts

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

It's slow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

It's cumbersome.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

You know, people are concerned about buying from a startup in this space because there's not a lot of of, like I said, case studies and stuff here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

And so we made that shift to go from let's sell to big enterprise plant.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

Let's sell these big enterprise plans to let's sell these smaller individual team deals and really focus on getting that first five users in the door.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

And that was revolutionary for us like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

That totally opened the floodgates.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

Yeah, I mean, it's kind of all over the place, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

Like it's still a little too early for that to be a meaningful metric for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

You know, I would say that, you know, it's in that 5 to 10K range as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

But the expansion is what makes it worth it, which is why that net dollar retention is so essential for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

Have you not made any hires over the past 12 months?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools

Well, we sort of changed out the team.