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Eugene Levin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
238 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

For me, I was the happiest man in the world because I did it for me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

20%, whatever, markets go up and down, but we did it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

How many people were on your stock exchange rang the bell?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

It's a very, very small club of executives, and I was just so privileged to be part of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

And I felt phenomenal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

But I think, like I said, if you're a founder and that happens, probably not nice.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

But also, you know, a couple months later, we were trading way above IPO price.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Everyone forgot about this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

So in 2020, you kind of... Sorry, 2022.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Oh, yeah, 2022.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

You kind of have to sort of what people... Sometimes people say is hide inside your existing user base.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

So we kept acquiring a lot of new customers, but our focus in 22 was on kind of... Especially towards the end of the year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Mm-hmm.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

to really start focusing on existing relationships, happy customers that we already have, and offering them additional products in our portfolio that they haven't used before.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Because we felt our portfolio matured enough, and we started pushing those kind of attach rates across our loyal customers, especially those customers who are both loyal and sizable companies, let's say over 50 employees.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Oh, no, that's just ecosystem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

I think that's kind of like complementary companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Unfortunately, most of them are much bigger than SEMrush.