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Ryan Holmes

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
266 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

And you're right, you will go to the market if you're at scale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

So, you know, at lower scale, you can have a little bit more churn at higher scale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

it really becomes risky.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

And you want to think about the lock-in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

I think one of the things that we're focused on with our platform strategy is thinking about how we can create better benefit to our customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

And ultimately, once you become embedded into this ecosystem of solutions, your lock-in is quite high.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

So we think about, we've got over 200 different partners built out in our app directory so far.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

We have millions of installations of apps in our app directory.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

every time we see an app install or an API integration, we know that that customer is more likely to stay with us because we're more connected, more meshed into their overall marketing and customer support stack.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

So if you think about things like Marketo, HubSpot, Salesforce, we do integrations into all of those.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

And once you're kind of tied into all of that stack,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

as a small, medium, and even enterprise business, the lock-in is pretty valuable there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

The data also that we're generating for our customers is really important.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

You mentioned that as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

We look at industry-wide benchmarking.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

We're one of the only businesses that has over 16 million customers in it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

It correlates to a little bit less than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

I mean, the law of large numbers, some of the big enterprises obviously take out with 10,000 seat deployments.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

We have a lot of individual solo entrepreneurs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
865 SaaS: Hootsuite On It's 16m Paying Customers, $100m+ ARR and Social Media Marketing

To give you another idea, I mean, we've got double that in accounts auth.