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Doug Breaker

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
156 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

Yeah, no, our margins are pretty solid.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

So the subscription fee goes, that's all margin with their Stripe fees and everything else.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

And then the content fees, we don't actually make that much off the content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

But the subscription fees make up a good portion of the money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

Yeah, and then on the higher plans...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

you know, we're charging a thousand bucks a month, you get an account manager for that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

But one account manager can handle enough accounts where that still comes in a good margin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

We're above 20 for one account manager now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

Don't quote me on this, but 2011.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

So just a bit of background.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

Scripta is owned by a little private equity company named Xenon.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

Xenon Ventures.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

It's xenon.io if you want to check it out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

So Xenon's whole thesis is, hey, we'll come in and buy SaaS companies that have raised a bunch of funding that are five, six, seven years in that aren't going to make it to the billion-dollar valuation that they thought, but that they want a graceful exit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

So Xenon purchased, scripted last summer, and then I joined in February after rolling off a prior Xenon company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

It is, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

No, I came out of Orbitz.com, the travel site, and then HomeFinder.com, which is a big real estate website.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

Yeah, and just to give you a bit of background, I've known Jonathan Siegel since 2007, since my Orbitz days.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

So he and I have been good friends for a long time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers

And he brought me into Earth Class Mail.