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Mat Ellis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
221 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

We just let the data do the talking.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

And so we have to be very accurate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

We processed two exabytes of data last year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

And to get these very accurate, we call it the true cost platform because we automate our recommendations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

Our competitors put a human in between.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

And if you're kind of still dealing with treating your service like pets instead of like cattle, you kind of give them names a bit about them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

And that's good enough.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

Let's see, in a typical quarter, we may lose a customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

We lose very few customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

Our customers are on a five-year journey with us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

And we have this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

We wish they would, but they sign three-year contracts sometimes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

And the first three customers who signed with us in 2012 are still customers with us today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

Oh yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

Oh yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

Well, we went through a period.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

We grew the business 40 times in revenue early on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

And we grew the revenue, the data set size, 10 million fold.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

And we had a couple of years where we had to focus on scaling our platform instead of our features.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend

That gave our competitors a chance to catch up.