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Derek O'Carroll

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
222 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

So if you think of RRR, annual recurring revenue, as a percentage of the total GMV through the platform, we've got lots of headroom now to chase through.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

And more importantly, the contracts are in place, the teams are in place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

Customers aren't surprised when you let them know, hey, congratulations, you've grown.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

Here's your new plan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

We take, at the moment, I think we're at, well, we're at the moment, we're 0.7, 0.8%, I believe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

I haven't actually looked at that, but yeah, it's about 0.7, 0.8.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

It's a moving feast.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

And we've obviously got to take into account discount clawback as well when you're getting into the first year and the deals that are done by salespeople there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

But I think we're at about 0.7, 0.8%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

So I'm just, I'm just looking into it now as we speak, just on the scorecard and expansion in the quarter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

So this is this quarter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

is running at 140%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

So that's a good indicator for, and that's growth this quarter over last quarter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

And then if I look at the plan for the year, so we've got 25 million of R to get to in terms of total R. So I've got to add 7.2 million of net R at the end of the year by the end of this year, of which 2.2 million will come from expansions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

So it's very, very important for us, and it's a key area of investment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

So when our head of revenue, Nick Shaw, comes to us and says, I want to invest in more salespeople, more CS people, we typically are looking very, very closely now at more CS people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

In other words, the retention and the upgrade and the expansion, because it's a lot more cost efficient to go after a dollar there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

but obviously we're growing and investing heavily in the new business teams as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

We think, well, it's growing, it grew last year, which is quite exceptional, just over 60%, or sorry, 58%, I think it was.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

And we expect this year to sort of normalize a little bit down to about 40% growth we expect this year.