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Osman Rashid

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
142 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

I mean, I've raised hundreds of millions of dollars as part of Chegg.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

I'm doing this one differently.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

That's accurate, but we are near profitability.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

So we want to manage for it, absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

We want to be responsible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

We want to control our growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

um you know control our expenses so but it's been happening naturally where we are able to with new sales coming in get closer and closer to profitability but that's not you know it's a good thing to worry about yeah that's great that's good all right very good and then you know churn is critical in any sas company especially an enterprise kind of cohort walk me through how you think about churn and kind of where you're at today

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

So when you say churn, you're talking about customers, you're talking about employees, which area are you talking about?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

Yeah, so what we find is 90 plus of our customers, 90% plus of our customers who have gone to more than 20 users, they don't churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

They stay with us because we've become such a critical part of the communication network, the history and the knowledge base and the product builds.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

That they want to stick around.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

They want to stay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

So where you have the churn, in our case, when it comes to customers, it's people coming in and trying the product out and then deciding, all right, we're going to do something at the company level.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

How do I bring IT or headquarters into it to help me make a decision because we like something?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

So we are at almost 5x growth over the last 12 months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

And we expect to be 5x in just Q1 of next year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

Yeah, it's below 5% actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

So we, depending obviously on the customer size, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

I mean, a big customer is a small customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate

But on average, we expect them to be around $70,000 to $75,000 in the second and third year.