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Nathan Latka

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

You have a lot of different options, but try and simplify this for my audience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

On average, what is a power operator paying you per month or per year to use your technology across all their substations?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

Are we talking $20,000 a year or $2 million a year, $20 million a year?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

$300,000 per year?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

Okay, got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

And if someone's paying you $300,000 per year, likely how many substations do they have?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

And if someone's only paying you $50,000 per year, how many substations do they likely have?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

And then to keep building that out, so let's say I have 500 substations, I'm paying you a SaaS fee of $50,000 per year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

You're also then going to charge me an implementation fee of about what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

We don't know what percent you're taking.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

So 30% of the ACV you just gave me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

Okay, got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

So the setup just to go live is $150,000 and the recurring fee on the back end is $50,000 per year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

You should have really, really high net dollar retention then because after someone pays a big setup fee, they never should cancel, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

When did you launch the company?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

First customer was in what year?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

Okay, so call it 2012, 2013.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

Cool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS For Power Grids Hits $5m ARR Charging $5 Per Utility Meter

And since then, no one has started using you and then stopped using you or started you with a thousand substations and then churned down to a hundred substations.