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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

There are also corporate clients that use Servoy site-wide.

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

So they use it for all of their software development.

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

Then you're looking at thousands of users.

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

if you look at software companies then because they're paying a percentage that can also vary depending on their own size usually in reality it's around two percent of their total revenue so let's say as a software company you're you're building 200 000 a month then your cost to serve will probably be four to five thousand so typically very much in the realm of what you'll be paying to your infrastructure company typically but now you get a full stack so full development

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

testing, deployment, integration, and rapid application development tools.

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

I would say that it's on the low end of our average.

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

If you look at ISVs, it's sort of on our average when I look at corporate lines.

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

Yes, we were probably too early.

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

So the first years we had a pretty tough time in selling this.

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

How tough?

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

And even now, it was very hard.

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

It was finding customers one by one.

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

Marketing was very difficult.

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

And that has gotten much better in the past years, where now the gardeners and the foresters have defined low-code as its own separate market.

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

Although we feel that we are a bit in the middle, so we're not entirely in the low-code space.

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

Because while low-code is great, it's not very capable of building complex business applications.

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

It's usually only used for very small point applications.

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

Our platform is typically used for

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

broader applications.

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

On the high end, you would use tools like Java and .NET, with which you can basically build anything, but you need a very high budget.