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Raj Agarwal

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
121 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

Uh, total we've raised, uh, nearly $60 million in equity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

Oh, you know, I'll tell you, um, there there's pros and cons obviously of, of raising money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

And, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

for a lot of our early going, we wanted to maintain some optionality and stay lean.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

But this space did start to really take off.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

And particularly in 2015, a lot of money was going into this space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

And, you know, to some extent, we jumped onto that bandwagon and probably raised a little more than we should have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

Around that time, Mixpanel raised $65 million in a single round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

Kahuna raised $45 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

Other companies like Urban Airship and Amplitude raised a lot of money around that time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

So these are all companies in a similar space to us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

So it was a little bit like the race was on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

And because of the amount of money that went into the space and the amount of money that went into sales and marketing, we oversaturated the space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

And pretty much all of us had to do some level of sort of correction.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

I think we were early on that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

And we've been able to take the business to cash flow breakeven, which we did last year in 2017.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

So, you know, look, we spent more than we wanted for a period of time, but we corrected, you know, what we were doing quickly enough and focused back in on customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

You know, we were also, to the extent, the piece I talked about where we sort of moved towards the enterprise, there was a time where we were hitting maybe too wide a part of the market, you know, from sort of the mid-market into enterprise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

And we had to get really focused in on what our core was, where