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Philip Soffer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
180 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

But what's interesting is that we did that while achieving profitability.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

That's great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

I think one of the things about being a German company that has been funded with fairly limited capital is that there's just different habits than you have in Germany.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

in Silicon Valley companies that I've worked at.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

So we have focused on capital efficiency and on being able to be profitable at a lower run rate than a lot of companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

Well, so we think about it basically on a cohort basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

So are we getting better at retaining and expanding the customer's

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

that, uh, that we, that we've been signing on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

And so, you know, a couple of years ago, we were not so good at that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

Come on, Philip, tell me how bad.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

Uh, well, I think the industry is, is a, is a, is a weird term, uh, because you have to segment it in a lot of different ways, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

Like if you're a system of record kind of SAS, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

SaaS company, then your stickiness is very high because the switching costs are extremely high because you hold the data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

Whereas for somebody like us, we're a service and we basically aspire to be, for our customers, a really easy way to turn on software testing and the way that you can turn on more servers if you're Amazon, if you're using AWS or Google Cloud or whatever.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

So we operate under a slightly different set of assumptions than if we were a system of record.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

But anyway, in our latest cohorts, we're close to 100% net revenue retention.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

Yeah, on the cohort basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

Well, CAC is good for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1363 Test IO CEO: We'll Pass $10m in ARR Soon

I mean, our CAC to LTV ratio is really good.