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Kurt Abrahamson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
209 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

They generally have a high renewal rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

And so it's just a much more predictable business model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

So like I said, because of the way we structured our business and the way we work with publishers, there's not a lot of direct costs to the actual business itself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

So when we add

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

a new customer, we're not paying someone else really for adding that customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

So it's highly leverageable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

Payback, once we cover the cost of building and supporting the publisher network,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

which we don't pay someone directly for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

We pay our team to do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

What's your team size, Kurt?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

Our total company team size is 70, about a third in product and engineering.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

Most of the product engineering work is focused on the data business right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

The sales team is about 1,500.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

The marketing team is about half a dozen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

Okay, got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

Six marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

And, you know, G&A and all that kind of stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

Mostly focused in the U.S.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
873 How ShareThis Is Pivoting To A B2B SaaS Data Play

We have a small team in London.