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Ry Walker

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
539 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

Yeah, nine months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

Nine months payback.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

That's all I know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

We dropped it down to around six months, and then we doubled our growth team size, which threw more cost in there, but now it's creeping back down again.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

When did you- Went from- Yeah, go ahead.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

I say we started around 12 months, then we got down to about six months and then we doubled the team size.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

We went back up to 12 and now we're back down to nine again.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

No, we don't actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

Are you raising?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

No.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

Yeah, we're raising.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

We decided to burn the pile as fast as we can in a responsible way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

But yeah, when you get to 25 people, I think our gross burn is around 200K.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

So we're burning net 150.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

Right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

So yeah, a million doesn't last too long when you're doing that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

Yeah, so our revenue, being around 50K a month, offsets 200,000, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

And we're right around.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

What are you raising, Rye?