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Daniel Wickberg

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
139 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

13 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

Right around.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

So, I mean, we started out as a typical CRM almost 20 years ago, and then we did a pivot a few years ago to start focusing more on recurring revenue businesses like ourselves.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

So today we're targeting SaaS companies and other companies that have some kind of recurring revenue to help them manage recurring revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

It's a CRM with built-in subscription and ARR analytics and stuff like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

Uh, I'm not too familiar with the differences between those, but I mean, we, we do revenue recognition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

We do all kinds of ARR and MRR analytics, and we spend quite a lot of time to, to, to, you know, enable our customers to, to manage, uh, SAS specific, uh, KPIs and targets, which is kind of a hassle in most other CRMs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

So our customer base is kind of distorted at the moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

So up until around one and a half years ago, we had around 600, 700 customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

And then we used to have a partnership with another Swedish company who we provided a white label, like smaller version of upsells.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

And a lot of these very tiny customers migrated to up sales a while back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

We went from 600 customers to 1,800 customers almost overnight.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

So I would say our typical customers, they are around $15,000 in ARR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

But now if you just average it out, it's around $6,000 to $7,000, somewhere around that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

Something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

No, I mean, the story was I had been doing programming since I was 13 years old.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

And the plan was to go to, you know, after high school, go to the university and study engineering.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He just hit $12m in ARR. Took 7 years to hit $1m. Don't get discouraged!

But I decided to take like a, you know, sabbatical year off and ended up in a sales job.

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