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Nathan Latka

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
223769 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Rand is running Moz and he's going, how the hell do these SEMrush folks grow so quickly?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

This must have felt nice.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Why didn't SEMrush bid on the Moz acquisition?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

And give them the numbers really quick.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Moz was talking about how much revenue, how much growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

100 million of revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

So you're growing revenues, 67,000 paying customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

You go public.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

It's the middle of COVID.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

No one else is going public.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Your competitors saying nice things, but the press then just like shits all over you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Stocks crashes 20% on day one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

What is that like?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Do you have the emotional sort of, do you ignore it or how do you get around that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

Because for him, it's kind of- From this article or from the stock?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

You get through it nicely, and your cohorts continue to expand, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

116% net dollar retention.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

You're seeing these bands thicken, which is a sign that, again, that expansion is happening faster.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

One of the ways, or maybe, can you talk maybe about that 2022 cohort, that green one there?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

This is sort of how you placed yourself and how you talk about yourself in the market.