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Jan Elman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
170 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So I started Servoy 17 years ago based on the fact that I saw that developing business applications was way too difficult and taking way too much time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

And so what we're doing today, we created a platform that makes it

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

three to five times quicker, create business applications, both for internal corporate users and for ISV.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So independent software vendors that create standard off the shelf software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

Uh, I would say 80% of our revenue today is, uh, is recurring.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So we price around usage of the platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So typically with corporate users, that can be on a per user basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

With software companies, we typically charge as a percentage of what they charge for their products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So let's pretend you're a software product and you charge

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

$10 per user, then our cost would be a fraction, obviously a very small fraction of that cost.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

And it makes it very easy for software companies to get started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

You're not investing tens of thousands of dollars to begin with a platform, but you can begin at a very low cost.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

And you're immediately seeing results by using the product versus building everything by yourself from scratch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

That varies because we serve two distinctly different groups.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So on the one hand, corporate clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So for example, here in Los Angeles, we have UCLA as a customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

Within the hospital, they build custom software applications using Servoy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

This is typically done at the departmental level.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

So you only have maybe 10, 20, 30 users.

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