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Felipe Corto

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
181 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

Yeah, correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

And then, of course, then it's the people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

Now, if the architecture is not that good, typically, you know, you don't have good people unless these people realize that they made some mistake in their architecture and they are changing it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

And that's fine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

So, but it's architecture and then the people and then the valuation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

We have no reason of paying a significant amount of dollars for something that we could build ourselves.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

So it's a question of also time to market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

So everything we do, we try to really be a good home for the company that we acquire.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

So we need also the motivation of the people and doing things in a reasonable way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

At the end,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

is a very challenging domain and you want to really satisfy your customers, which means you need to give them tools that they can deploy easily, that does the job and protect them at the end of the day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

So it's a serious business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

Oh, we were, you know, we're very good retention rates and much more on the edge.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

Of course, the enterprise is more sticky than this than this and be virtual.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

We're on the 95% on the enterprise and about in the 80 85% on the on the SMB SMB.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

No, as far as I'm concerned, we're a very healthy model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

No, no, we're positive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
944 Why He IPO'd CyberSecurity Company and How He Did $230m in 2017 Revenue

It's a combination of all.