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Joe Payne

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
274 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

And so we set out to figure out how we could use all the skills we had to build a company that added a lot of value in the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

And what year was that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

And that was 2015.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

And so we really spent a lot of time doing research.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

And one of the things we discovered is that the DLP market, the data loss prevention market, was ripe for disruption because everyone that we talked to hated their DLP.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

And that product didn't work and they had spent a lot of money on it, but they weren't actually using it and they weren't solving the problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

And so we built a product, we launched it in 2017.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

And we've been growing it pretty aggressively since then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

We grew it enough, we're over 50 billion in ARR last year on that one product, on the new product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

Five zero, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

So that was enough for us to feel comfortable

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

to we actually then sold the CrashPlan product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

So we incubated this idea inside a company with what I would call an entirely new founding team, founding technical team, et cetera.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

We built this new product, we grew that new product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

And then we, last summer, we sold CrashPlan to a private equity firm.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

And basically we don't do that anymore.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

We only do this new thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

So we're completely focused on insider threat

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

and data protection now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?

It was a good business, but it was a declining business.