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Sabrina Parsons

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
204 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

But for the most part, we aren't distributed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

We're here in Eugene, Oregon.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

We like everybody being at headquarters and we run a company where we like people to collaborate in person.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

So we haven't done a distributed workforce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

And it turns out Eugene, Oregon has become more and more popular for people to move to when you look at, you know, cost of living in the Bay Area, Seattle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

We are a hundred percent, uh, privately owned, no debt.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

Uh, uh, we are, we run profitable cashflow, uh, positive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

So for the LiveLend product, it's been, we're at the point where we're probably at somewhere between 20 and 30%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

Obviously in the beginning we were growing, you know, 100, 60.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

Exactly, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

We got a couple of new products that were back up on those, you know, because we're starting from scratch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

So those products are growing at a higher rate overall.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

And it's a focus that we have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

We really, we took the cash back

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

from our Windows products, and that was what we used to invest in our new cloud products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

Now that LivePlan is doing really well, we're using that cash to invest in new products as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

So we really try to think about it, and we'd like to remain privately owned.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

We'll see whether opportunities arise to do something differently, but so far, we've appreciated using our own success to finance new growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1661 How Palo Alto Software Broke $14m in ARR Serving SMB's

Well, it has to do with our new product, Outpost.