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Jonah Goodhart

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
277 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

So basically we were really focused actually not on expansion in the beginning, but we were really this for the first, I would say almost two years from 2012 to 2014 of just getting new logos.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

Frankly, we didn't honestly focus on expansion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

It was something we talked about in board meetings with Mayfield and our feeling was we want to be a new logo machine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

We want to be able to just generate new business, new business, new business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

And really importantly,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

hold those companies with us so low churn so new logos and low churn were basically the only things we cared about with the belief that if we're providing value and they're not turning over time we'll be increased we'll be able to increase our deals we'll be able to add more to the package in terms of how we price things we always looked at it as package pricing so we said look here's all this cool stuff that we can do for you now

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

tell me what you want.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

And they would say, well, I don't really need this, but I definitely want that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

And I definitely want that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

And I definitely want that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

How much is it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

And we would say, okay, great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

We'll come back to you and we'll give you a price for everything that you want.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

And we would basically package price that way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

We didn't do, we didn't put a matrix on our site.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

We didn't do a transparent pricing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

We said, look,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

We're going to put together each deal is different.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

Each client is different.