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Jody Glidden

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
207 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

So we're not, we're not trying to, um, be profitable or anything like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

We're actually doing pretty well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

yeah but but we all we have great access to capital and we always have um so you know the great thing the reason we look at valuation so much as a as one of our metrics is that you know we know that that's a that's a source of financing for us at any time we want to draw on it well assuming the market stays frothy uh well we've got multiple sources that we've got uh we've got

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

debt financing available to us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

We've got equity financing available to us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

We've got founder financing available to us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

So if you look at, you know, the really bad recessions, they usually don't take, you know, the markets usually don't dry up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

Markets didn't dry up for more than like a year and a half.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

So, you know, that's not a big gap to close for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

We're not too concerned with it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

Well, because I think there's two things there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

One is, what's our evaluation?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

And obviously, that's going to fluctuate at the moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

It's a very high multiple, even if it went to

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

what's seen as a pretty historically low multiple.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

Um, it's not, we, we've got a lot of room to move on a, you know, on a, on a typical deal, our sales costs and our marketing costs are actually a very, very small fraction of the, of the deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

I'm just curious, like how small though, fully weighted.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

It varies pretty widely when, whether you're talking about a company like, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

a very, very large enterprise with a couple of hundred thousand seats, you know, you might see a sales cost of $50,000.