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Paul Lappas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
151 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

We have good customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

Our churn is really, really low.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

How low?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

Tiny.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

It's, um, we're, um, you know, um, over a hundred percent revenue retention because a lot of our customers will expand with us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

Um, so our platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

is focused on Amazon Redshift right now, which is a major cloud data warehouse.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

So as companies shift to other data warehouses, they might churn off of us, like Snowflake or BigQuery.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

And so our vision is to support all of those databases going forward, but for right now, we're small.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

Gross.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

It's under, under 5%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

Yeah, well, we're at the point where we're still figuring out the right go-to-market, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

What is the best way for us to acquire a dollar?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

Can we make at least $3?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

Can we make that money back within one year consistently and have enough data points where we can go to an investor and say, hey, if we...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

billion of your dollars, we'll be able to grow at this rate over the next two years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

We're close to that at this point, but we're not quite there yet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

So we're still at that stage of the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

We've raised a little bit over $5 million across two rounds of funding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility

Yeah.