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Mada Sagada

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
175 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

We do have very, very little churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

Most of our churn is actually, I think more than half of our churn is people going out to business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

Top of funnel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

Top of funnel, middle of funnel, definitely because we're so new and we haven't done as much on expansion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

And that's one of my big projects.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

I like to think about doing more customer marketing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

Right now, the way our marketing team is measured is all new accounts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

So it's new business from new accounts, not as much upsells and cross-sells, which is probably why I don't know those numbers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

Yeah, that's okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

That's okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

Now that we actually have a bigger user base and we've been selling for two years, that's like one of my big initiatives.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

So we don't actually think about it that way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

And I know it's very interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

So the people that use us for free, and if you think, are usually the developers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

And it's very hard to convert a developer into a paid product because they think they can build it themselves.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

So when we convert an account, it's usually because we get an intro to a different team and we talk about how they can use branch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

So it almost feels like a new sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

Same when we go into new accounts, we don't go and say, hey, try Branch for free.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

We go and we explain and they start with Branch Paid from the very beginning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play

So converting from free to paid hasn't really been a huge area of focus for us.