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George Gallegos

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
171 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

Are you pure SaaS?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

It is pure SaaS.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

We sell annual subscription and all of our customers pay the annual subscription.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

We have to earn their right to get the renewal the following year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

I would say the average is in the 50,000 per year range, which is why we're not similar to a Zapier, but similar to a mule.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

The company was launched in mid, I guess it was 2005, and mostly building the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

Started as open source and had built the product and spent most of the early four years building the technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

When I came in in 2011, they had had a few customers, but it was really time to build the channel, the marketing organization, the go-to-market activity, service organization.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

So we had to basically build the company from scratch at that point, but with the product that was in place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

And then we did re-architect the product for the cloud.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

We saw that the cloud was taking off, and we re-architected it at that time, moving from open source to cloud.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

Yep, it was bootstrapped and we continued to operate with our own proceeds and our own funding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

And then Salesforce.com was the first strategic investor, followed by Autodesk.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

And then last year, I brought in KKR, the growth side, the technology growth fund of KKR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

No, we're burning by design.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

We're growing the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

I mean, the market is growing at a very high pace, 50, 60 percent, depending on who you ask.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

And we're growing at 70 to 80 percent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

That's correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service

That's correct.