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Gaurav Dhillon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
282 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

But no, not always.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

But the flip side of that is you don't want to be too conservative, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

Because the early market share you get is the best market share, always.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

It's so much harder for Amazon to expand into Brazil today or set up operations in India because there are people there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

They have to go deal with them first.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

So this is where that business metric comes in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

So look,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

You know, when we were starting Informatica, this is coming on 25 years, Bob Oster, who was a CFO of Oracle, he was some of the people who put money into Oracle, also funded business objects and Informatica were the same people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

And it taught me a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

And here's a simple, simple rubric.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

Here it is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

If you do try to do six figure deals and try to have more customers than employees.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

Now, not all of them are direct customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

Some of them are OEMs as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

We're not going to break it up as easily because, look, in a private company atmosphere, you want to sort of obey some of the quiet things that you have to be before you're ready to really...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

I love you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

This is great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

Look, if you deal with Wall Street investors, this is nothing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

No, but let me give you a feel for it, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon

A company that can double its revenue, as we have done for years and will continue to do four years to come, has nothing to fear.