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David Hauser

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
286 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

Six month repeat rate, that's the same as retention.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

This is kind of the repeat rate for consumer goods.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

How much do I have to resell?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

If I have to resell my entire customer base again and again, that's much more risky, much less valuable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

So each of these metrics are the things in your business that make it more valuable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

Addressable market is really one that's interesting to me because a lot of people think about size of addressable market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

And I think quite honestly, that doesn't matter for most of us in the room, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

Unless you're doing hundreds of millions of dollars, the size doesn't matter as long as it's big enough, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

And I think for the most part, we're all working on things that are big enough.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

What I want to know is, is it growing stable or contracting?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

It's really hard to operate in a market that's contracting, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

No matter the size, there's just a downward pressure continuously if it's contracting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

So this makes it less valuable and unfortunately is less controllable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

These other things you can start to work on, addressable market, not as much.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

Existing channels, we can skip over that because that's kind of really direct to consumer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

ROAS, this is one of our most important metrics because we are a very market-driven company and we care about how much money can we spend to generate new customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

This matters.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

more than anything else, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

Assuming that we have enough EBITDA and enough revenue, ROAS matters.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today

And it's only on new customers.