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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

Yeah.

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 the business is going well, but we weren't at that 100% growth.

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 we were like, okay, this is a great partner for the 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

I have a lot of friends who are Vista CEOs who love working with them.

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

Also, one thing I think you know this is when you do a deal with a Vista-type firm, it's 100% common.

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 it's actually kind of hard to compare apples to apples to a classic venture deal where there's a preferred.

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 I think optically, it's hard to compare that valuation to others.

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

But these are good questions.

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

I mean, you always think about these as entrepreneurs.

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

I will say for me, though...

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

Long-term, it's just how do we build a really big company and drive value for our stakeholders?

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

Honestly, we all do more than enough in terms of financially well along the way.

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

Now it's just a question of how do we make this great for all of our stakeholders?

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

Just the valuation because the way that those things work is that they're basically buying out

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

your existing shareholders, not totally, but basically your existing shareholders will keep some and then sell some.

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 then your existing employees will keep some and sell some or sell all or whatever.

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 that's the way it works.

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, I mean, Vista wrote a very big check into this.

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 yeah, they have a,

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

This is very different than a venture round because they put a ton of money on Gainsight at a good valuation.