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Matt Benati

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
185 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

Biggest success was probably open market way back in the e-commerce days.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

But my last organization was LogMeIn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

I headed up marketing there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

Oh, okay, good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

And what was wonderful about LogMeIn was it provided me with high transaction rate, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

They were one of the pioneers in freemium.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

So to understand that high transaction rate and the early adoption and bringing people through that โ€“

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

But we do a free trial of 30 days and that gives people more than enough time to see the results and get used to it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

And that's been a big, big win.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

It is my first time on my own.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

I've done a couple of startups.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

I've done three startups before this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

The earliest I was in at one of those startups was 19 or something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

No, raised.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

Oh, well, you know,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

I won't say I have trouble with authority, but- You have trouble with authority.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

I wanted a chance to mess it up myself, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

And frankly, given the costs associated with building the product and those kinds of things, that you can do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

And I recommend to folks, go build it, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1072 Boston CEO: "I'd think hard about selling for 2-3x ARR"

Go get that started.