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Gadi Shamia

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
200 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

So natural growth happens, and this is where customers will add users, but many of our customers do need a seasonality aspect to their business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

And we work with them to offer this flexibility.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

So they're not stuck with unused licenses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

So we're definitely in that negative churn world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

And if you think of it, if you look at the business on an annual basis, the seasonality will reoccur.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

So if a customer went from, say, 200 agents to 500 agents in year one, they're likely to go from 250 to maybe 600 in year two.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

So seasonality reoccur.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

So on an AR basis, it doesn't really create churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

Oh, I see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

especially when you build it into the annual contract.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

So what we learned to do with customers is we talk about upfront about the seasonal needs and we build it into their annual contracts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

From revenue perspective, we don't really see this revenue fluctuates, but from users using the platform, we definitely see more users in December than we see in February, a couple of months after, despite our natural growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

But then it comes back again and the next year is even larger.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

You know, we don't disclose those numbers, but it's very healthy and comparable to some of the great SaaS companies in the industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

We respect many of them for different reasons.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

We really like Workday for how innovative they are and a pretty boring business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

We love Salesforce for what they do and how they actually train the market to really work the Salesforce way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

We love the way they manage their ecosystem and we have a great relationship with them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

We work now closely also with ServiceNow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia

It's another great company that came through a very small niche, but then building out of this niche and building more products out there, but really got to be dominant in the IT services niche and build a billion dollar revenue company from this one small four billion dollar niche.