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Nicolas Dessaigne

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
152 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

no there is a there is no seed model so it's mostly usage and then we are going to have plans and some features are including only in specific plans and so you need to go to the next plans to have access to them i see um and since you didn't want to talk about churn numbers specifically totally okay with that in terms of net retention with that 30 expansion does that more than make up for your gross revenue churn so you're above 100 percent

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

Yeah, we're above 100%, largely above 100% retention.

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

It's between like... I mean, retention is going to end up between 120, 125, depending on the year, depending on the segment, but that's basically it.

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

So, no, it's very...

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

It's a healthy business.

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

Yeah, well, all of that is like a ballpark.

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

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

At the end of the day, you want to spend well less.

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

It's so difficult to answer that question because it depends on the segment.

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

We go from self-serve, where the CAC is basically nothing, like close to zero, to enterprise, where the CAC would be in the...

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

in the, like, at least five years number, like if you factor all the cost of the people, the sales, the marketing, and everything, so it can go pretty high.

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

So it's all over the place.

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

At the end of the day, what you want is a great ratio where your RAC is way lower than your LTV.

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

First-year ACV and LTV, of course.

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

No, we're closer to one year.

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

But yes, like the payback, like how long does it take to pay it back?

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

If you stay under one year, it's very expensive.

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

Of course, but not this year.

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

Yeah, it's going to be probably next year.

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

Sometime next year we'll raise a new one.