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Nicolas Dessaigne

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
152 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

One is a really more higher touch, sales-driven, very typical SaaS model where the team that is split in different segments, SMB, mid-market, enterprise, with all the supporting functions from sales development to SDRs, BDRs, that are helping create more pipeline for the market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

Oh, that's a good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

I'm not leading the sales.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

It's about if I group SDRs and BDRs together, we're speaking about one, between one and one for one, one for two.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

When we look at the bottom line here, it's more pipeline generated.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

When we look at SDRs and PTRs, that's the most important for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

So we also look at the number of meetings.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

I mean, there is a lot of metrics we're looking at.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

But at the end of the day, what matters is how much dollars we can close and get in the bank.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

So pipeline is the metric I'm looking at mostly on my side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

Uh, you mean sales or like everybody, everybody on your, on everyone in the company?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

Uh, 300.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

300.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

Over five offices today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

Central headquarters, we started in Paris.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

We have a big team in Paris.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

All of our engineering is there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1562 Why $40m ARR Algolia CEO Believe Developers Should Do 1 Day of Support Per Month

And we have sales offices in London, New York, and Atlanta.