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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

Oh, wow.

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

Yeah, and that's the way to do it.

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

That's what Tableau did, which shares some finance board members with my old company and so on.

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

Yeah, if you do well, that's the right way to do it.

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, because the IPO, you're also trying to build a brand for yourself.

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

Nobody knows you as a company or as an executive.

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 if you do a modest IPO, you've got to price it so there's some wealth for the new buyers.

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 as they do well, they get a sense.

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 do a couple of good quarters and you have the right momentum.

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 then they're very much more confident of buying a bigger chunk.

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 at that point, you can price it more efficiently instead of trying to do it all in one go.

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 I certainly feel that was good policy.

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 for one year, I did 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

I had certain bucket list items.

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 wanted to learn a language.

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 I learned Spanish.

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 wanted to travel in certain parts of the world, want to spend some time with my parents before they got too old.

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 did that.

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 I also wanted to win the bet that many of my friends made with me that I wouldn't last more than six months.

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 I basically left the country and moved to Argentina.