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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

They, they, they, they experience a lot of pain and we're, we're there to help them help them make that transition away from the traditional data warehouses like Oracle and Teradata.

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

And so we've been really excited to find that niche for ourselves because obviously there's a much higher ACV customers and a much better market segment for us.

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

Um, we, we do, um, our, our CAC at this point, um, is, you know, South of 10, um, of 10 K. Um, our, you know, the, the nice thing about our business is that we can sell it over the phone, um,

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

Typically customers will make a decision.

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

There's a free trial and they'll make a decision in about two weeks, two to three weeks of whether to buy us.

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

So our end to end sales cycle is south of two months at this stage, even for the larger customers.

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

We constantly want to try to increase prices, but you always want to make sure

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

With those economics, we're really confident that we're at a good spot for additional venture rounds and it's healthy business.

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

Yeah, we're always trying to get the CAC up.

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

the cackdown.

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

The way that we find customers is in two ways.

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

One is they find us through content.

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

We publish a lot of content about data lakes, performance monitoring, visibility through a blog post or a white paper that we've written.

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

And then we're also reaching out to customers that we know are using Amazon Redshift.

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

How do you know that?

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

That's a really good question, Nathan.

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

So

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

it turns out the word redshift is pretty not common in job descriptions.

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

And so if you scrape indeed, for example, you can kind of figure out which companies are using it.

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

So you have scrapers that go out to job boards and then they collect company names.