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Nick Mehta

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
231 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

For example, Bain Consulting Group did a study for us and found that CSM teams are growing about 30% a year overall.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

That includes some that are growing super fast and some just getting started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

There's a lot of data out there that helps us understand what our growth rate should be long-term.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

Yeah, totally.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

And by the way, one thing about net retention is there's kind of two big variables.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

One is like your operations, meaning your sales and customer success and all that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

That's my world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

The other one is your business model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

So there's some companies that have a consumption-based business model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

So Snowflake, 180% net retention, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

If you're like a classic kind of software seat model, don't compare yourself to Snowflake because honestly, they'll just make you feel bad because that's a different business model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

So in consumption, you see companies with 150, 160, 170, 180%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

In sort of more your classic subscription, $110 is very good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

$120 is really good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

$130 is awesome, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

And so that's kind of the range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

If you're more of an SMB player, meaning selling to small businesses, $100 is good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

HubSpot, I think, is about 101, and that's amazing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

They're doing a great job.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

You need to put yourself in the right comparative set.