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Godard Abel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1167 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

terrible economic storm.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

But then obviously by June, it was like back to growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

So we did slow down a bit, but we did also, frankly, we used that time to get more efficient.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

So we actually got to cashflow positive over that year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

We weren't even wanting to, but we kind of battened out of hatchets a bit ourselves and then growth came back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

So that's been wonderful.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

And we took that actually slightly positive, which was kind of amazing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

It wasn't so much because frankly, like when the pandemic started, like I think the last time thing anyone was thinking about was raising another round or at least I wasn't, you know, it was more like, and luckily we still had a money in the bank.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

It was just like, Hey, how do we make sure we can weather this storm?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

You know, cause nobody knows how long it's going to be.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

um and uh yeah and then frankly our growth came back faster than we planned and then so all of a sudden we were cash flow positive although we way before we even wanted to be but now with the unicorn round we are investing we accelerate so i think what i can tell you looking forward i think we are expecting to be you know 50 plus per annum ar revenue growth and uh and i think we're and obviously depends if you look back but but you know but that's a rate we're very comfortable with

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

The 1.1 billion was post.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

It was around there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

Most of it was primary.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

So although I will say, I mean, now I think probably like most unicorns, I mean, a nice thing for our longtime employees and investors, you know, there are secondary opportunities.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

Well, I think it was just, and we were in the good fortune that investors wanted more, which I think is common now for unicorns, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

And so we have gone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
G2 on Track to Break $100m ARR 2022, $60m+ Today at $1.1b Valuation

And I think we're also, our vision there is to do that on a...