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Nikos Moraitakis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
291 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

However, it's a different type of term than normal enterprise software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

It's not people who are unhappy with the software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

It's actually people who got their job done and they're not hiring anymore.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

And you see this because similarly, about 30% of our new business every month

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

is returning customers, people who hired with us before, they left, and now they're hiring again in the coming time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

Look, VCs who are savvy about the SMB space know that SMB customers very often are sporadic or episodic in their use.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

So they have higher return characteristics or return and reactivation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

Net revenue retention is over 100%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

How much over 100%?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

It's about 101, 102.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

Yes, because it's also affected by larger customers who stay and upgrade a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

They grow a lot with us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

Very often you see someone starting at $50 and then they're paying, you know, $15,000 a year years later.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

or the gross revenue return is negative.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

The net is, the gross is something like 15%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

The most interesting thing with the SMBs is that you see large amount of churn in the beginning because the adoption is, they may be sporadic, they may be using it for a few months, but the ones who stay, stay for a long time and they grow with you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

So after year one, even for the smaller customers, retention is 100%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

Oh, minimum lifetime value is something like three and a half to $4,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR

Well, essentially for small companies, it's three and a half to $4,000 lifetime value.