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Madhan Kanagawa

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
188 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

So they are pretty incentivized to bring in deals to us, potentially to help us sell more final cloud licenses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

And then there's a service for our partners who take our software and then host it themselves and be almost a branded version of our software, which they resell to other end customers, like small businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

For the channel partner, the partner owns the customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

We don't build the customer directly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

We build the reseller.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Same thing applies for service partners as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

They actually want the customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

They're only building their service partner, not the end customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

I see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

It's been changing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

What we see is that the resellers definitely see a lot of growth in their space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Service partners, not so much.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

I think just because of the consolidation going on in the space, people like to use maybe more specific services out there already.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

So the hosting itself is going down a little bit as a general trend.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

But resellers' space is pretty big, and we are seeing growth in that for sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Gross revenue churn is going to be around...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

I think it's around 80%.