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Olivier Simonis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
260 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

And honestly, for me, that makes me quite proud to

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

to be able to build a company that actually can live without the two founders and can really continue without the founders and will not be impacted negatively.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

On the contrary, I think.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

Yeah, I think that's great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

Before we wrap up here with the famous five, talk to me about churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

What's your gross revenue during the last 12 months?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

Well, it's quite stable, to be honest.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

We have a churn about 10% a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

which is rather standard for this kind of SaaS product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

It has gone up a little bit at the beginning of the COVID crisis because of a turn linked to travel sector and cinema companies and attraction parks, etc.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

But most of it was basically where contractors had to freeze because

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

because people were not just at the office to operate the platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

So it went up at that time by 50%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

And now we are really back to the average churn rate that we used to have around 10% yearly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

And how much expansion revenue do you have in the same cohort?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

Yeah, that's a good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

In terms of newbies, when I say we are growing the business, it's about two-thirds is coming from newbies and one-third is coming from expansion of existing contracts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

So, yeah, upsells that are linked to new countries or new brands or new users that are joining us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

You've added about a million in ARR over the past eight to 12 months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

You're saying about one third of that new million in ARR is about 350 grand came from expansion of historical customers.