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Marcin Kleczynski

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
286 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

Yeah, it's 50-50.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

And I attribute that to the consumerization of IT.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

So somebody like you would use the product at home.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

You'd love it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

It would save your bacon for the most part.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

We've had people say basically, hey, my PhD thesis was encrypted by ransomware.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

You saved my ass.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

And that's awesome to hear.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

They go to work, they have the same problem, and really that's when IT and security get involved.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

Half the time, when we actually expand into an account, they're using a consumer product at work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

A couple of caveats.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

So we have a lot of subscriptions off of like black Friday for 12 bucks a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

And we actually, um, this is something really cool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

So about halfway through the company's life, we transitioned to from perpetual to subscription.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

So we sold the product for $25 lifetime.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

And then we sold it for $25 a year, and now we're selling it for $40 a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

But every time we've made that switch, we grandfathered the cohort in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
938 Will 28 Year King of Malware IPO with $130m in ARR in Next 12 months?

I see.