David Rusenko
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It's sort of like several things all together to add up.
In the later features, it's some of this professional sort of functionality that you might get maybe if you're a freelancer and you need to get leads or you're looking for high-quality video players, like kind of some of this functionality to really look very professional.
And in the later features, it's all about โ the later packages, it's all about e-commerce.
Yeah, I don't think we're particularly unusual compared to other SaaS companies.
Yeah, so I think I like to look โ personally, I do not like looking at churn as is defined.
I know churn is sort of both a concept and sort of a defined metric.
I prefer to look at renewal rates by cohort because churn is sort of this sort of composite measure that I'm not as much of a fan of.
So our renewal rates are one of the steadiest metrics in our business, and I think if you โ
Uh, you know, if you have, um, a product that doesn't have product market fit, you're going to see a really low renewal rates.
If you have a product that has really great product market figures, you really high renewal rates.
And I think that, um, that, that, that is a key sign for business on whether, you know, the product market is healthy.
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of a different measure for us.
We don't look at logo retention.
There's 50 million people that come to sign up.
There's a certain number of those that have converted to paid.
Well, tell me how you think about it.
So the way I think about it is basically looking at our cohorts and then understanding their renewal rates by term.
So
Let's just say you look at a cohort that paid us for the first time in January 2009.
And let's say it's an annual package, right?