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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

What's your ratio of SDRs to sales reps?

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, you know, depending on the territory, one is to one or one is to two.

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

In some of the newer places, it's more one is to one as we're expanding aggressively in Europe and Australia.

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 that's more one is to one, which is what we were in the U.S.

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

two years ago.

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 it's one is to two now.

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, I'm willing to spend what gives me, I would say, incremental operating leverage.

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 probably the one financial term I know.

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 studied electric engineering, not finance.

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 actually straightforward, 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

And we look at it as some of the ratios in SaaS.

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're looking for a way, look, if you spend money today on sales and marketing, at what point does your leverage flip over?

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 put in, say, a million dollars in sales and marketing today, is that going to produce more than a million or less than a million in the next quarter, 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

So we basically think about, and the reality is there are diminishing returns at some point.

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 we are willing with the capital that we've raised and, and, you know, frankly, we're not a hype company.

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 a buzz company.

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

Customers love us.

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'm, you know, we, we are now getting deals where it's, we've been in business for a couple of years.

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 have hundreds of customers all over the globe, all the way from, you know, sort of A through Z. Would you say that's like, like 500, 700?

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 the who's who it's stuff like, you know, McKinsey and Verizon and you know, people like Denny's and you know, Bristol Myers Squibb and it's the who's who.