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Osman Rashid

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
142 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

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

Yeah, absolutely.

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

So we are, you know, we are looking at 2019 where we'll get more aggressive.

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

Well, a couple of things.

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

So we are expecting a lot more customers coming in in early Q1.

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

We're at the stage where we can predict 5x growth just in the first quarter over all of 2018.

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

And many of these customers are, you know, our deals typically are customers pay up front for the whole year.

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

So you can get aggressive in many different ways if you're managing a business carefully.

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

And we believe that we've got enough of a pipeline for Q2 and Q3 where we can remain bullish for the whole year.

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

On cash basis.

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

We don't share any numbers.

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

I know you want us to tell, but, you know, we don't share financial numbers, even, you know, give rough numbers on that.

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

If you don't mind, I'll have to decline answering the question.

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

None of those two numbers are wrong.

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

No.

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

It's a free country, as they say.

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

Yes.

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

It's in line with the percentages that I was sharing earlier, but most of it is coming from new bookings.

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

Yeah.

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

Seven, seven habits of highly effective people.

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

I really like, like Elon Musk.