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Sam Cagliucci

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
154 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

Uh, if we were creating a CRM company tomorrow, you know, everybody knows the value of CRM.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

It's a little bit different.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

I think we've had, you know, we've been healthy churn about 10%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

Revenue or logo?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

That's, that is, um, that is, uh, revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

A little higher on the logo side, early adopters that were low ACV from back in those days, like when we talked, that probably weren't going to step up, but we learned from, makes up about half of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

The other half has to do with, as a SaaS tool,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

We learned really quickly that when you have one key stakeholder that's a champion with your software inside of an enterprise, that's a good thing, but it's not a good thing when they turn over.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

So we learned that we got to get really deep, really fast when we sell into an enterprise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

to have multiple stakeholders that know us, have relationships with us, so that God forbid somebody moves up, moves on, the baby doesn't go out with the bathwater, so to speak.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

Six, seven points.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

Yeah, so because of the fact that we're doing a lot with frontline workers, a big passion point for us with our product is that the overwhelming majority of 130 million U.S.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

workforce does not get access to ongoing skill development like other roles inside of the org.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

We can't price by user only because you're going to pay $100 a month for a seller, but you're not going to pay $100 a month for maybe the usher or the security guard.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

So our pricing model has three prongs to it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

We're users, so we still have users as one of the metrics.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

Second is admins.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

We've built a product where frontline managers can create content.