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Maarten Verwas

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102 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

And if, if we have unexpected throttling down,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

investigate what's happening to see whether they're not satisfied with the service, whether they had an accident with their content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

It's key for us to understand what happened.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

As long as they chose

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

Just when the production attention come back, we don't consider it as churn and we will help them the next time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

We actively monitor the production.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

Or we monitor the user's activity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

So it's a bit of a Big Brother type of monitoring activity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

But when a producer is paying for 100 seats and not using them properly, they're a churn candidate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

Then we just give them a call interactively and ask them what's going on and how we can give them a better service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

The revenue turn is literally noise on the signal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

Hard to measure, Nathan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

We're tripling our revenue every 12 months now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

And it's very hard to measure negative churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

No, we are tripling the number of users and our revenue to date.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

It's something we're not tracking because the impact is just not worth measuring.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

We incorporated in 2010.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

That's an excellent question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

I was at the other side of the table, Nelan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

I was lead engineer of the research and development department at VertΓ©.