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Nathan Latka

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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

How were you growing the dollars that each company was paying you so fast in 2020?

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

many publicly traded SaaS companies will sort of buy down their market, horizontal, vertical integration.

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

Are the logos on this page also your M&A targets?

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

Did you bid on the Optimizely deal?

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

Did you guys seriously analyze the deal or no?

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

Okay.

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 don't actively think about, hey, what's further down the funnel?

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

That can drive our M&A strategy.

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 nailed it.

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

I mean, look, but the numbers speak for themselves.

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 from a 2023 June slide deck.

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 was the last time that you guys published this kind of data.

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 did you stop publishing this kind of data?

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 in terms of ARPU expansion, when you have 100,000 paying customers, if you can launch a new product line or acquire another company and upsell an ad, call it $100 per customer per month, that's $10 million of new MRR, which is obviously a great playbook for any publicly traded SaaS company.

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 also come in in terms of pretty healthy economics in terms of AR per employee, right at the average of most publicly traded SaaS companies, at least on this chart, about $170,000.

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

Now, you're feeling the go-forward strategy with this kind of communication.

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

Right, so talk a little bit about your product strategy moving forward, maybe touch on AI a bit.

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

As we wrap up, this is your stock price over the past X many of years.

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

Despite $100 million of more revenue, the stock price is still the exact same, basically, as it was when you guys went 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

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