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Joe Coleman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
225 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

On the SaaS side of things, it's around 200.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

No, I didn't have anything else.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

I just said, yes, it is very much an enterprise sale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

So we are ahead of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

It depends, again, on how you calculate it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

So when you look at just pure subscription revenue, we'll end the year at about a $20 million or so run rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

And then the content component of that is quite a bit larger.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

If you're going to

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

So this gets into accounting rules and ways that companies sort of count their revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

What we've decided to do recently is not count the 85% of the dollar that goes to the writer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

We just kind of pass through now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

And so we count only the 15% that we take.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

What that means is that we have a business with smaller revenue but much higher gross margins, which is really, I think, the way that it should sort of be done anyway.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

Yeah, totally.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

Yeah, it's like smoking mirrors basically.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

What's that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

No, no, we've definitely raised capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

We've raised about $20 million in equity over the last seven years or so.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth

Last round was end of 2016.