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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 the people that you sold to in that business were IT people.

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 you were selling to old organizations that hadn't moved to the cloud yet.

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 you could see where that business was going to go long term.

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 also, we were selling now to security people.

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 our focus is on a completely different buyer solving a completely different 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 one thing I would tell any entrepreneur is you better be focused.

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?

If you want to disrupt an industry, if you want to win in a space, you can't have lots of different products doing lots of different things.

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?

You can do that when you become bigger and your CrowdStrike or your GE or some large company, you can have lots of different products in your bag.

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?

But if you want to disrupt a market and win in that market, you better be very focused on it.

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's why we did 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 it made a lot of sense for us.

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 sold it for $250 million.

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 put a lot of cash on the balance sheet.

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?

Sorry, Nathan.

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?

I messed you up on the numbers.

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?

The $50 million was the insider 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?

It's the product that we kept.

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?

That product is at $50 million.

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?

The old CrashPlan product was another $70 million or so of ARR.

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 were $120 million.