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Sanjeev

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
244 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

Professional services is a way to obviously fill your cash flow bucket, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

Look, again, having had few exits, my strongest piece of advice, try to delay venture capital or any kind of capital raise money as far as you can.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

Sometimes it's hard.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

One way to mitigate that temporarily is by selling PS, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

But watch out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

You and I were talking about our journey with the customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

This is a very, very large customer of ours who has forced us to do a whole bunch of ps.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

The last two years, our precipitous drop on that ps was unwinding from them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

We still have that customer, but we have lost that revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

And that's okay because, as you know, investors don't care a lot about that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

It matters if you're about to exit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

It doesn't matter if you're in the journey to pivoting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

It's our single low margin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

And to us, the way we think about it, it's like a money using machine with low cost of time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

It's a very good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

I'm happy to chat separately, but the quick answer is it depends on what your ARR is, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

It's a function of your ARR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

Particularly if you have debt capital that's cheap.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

We have in our debt capital, we have both cheap capital and very expensive debt capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Transform your business from a EBITA multiple of 4 to a revenue multiple of 5+

At some point, the expensive debt capital is worse than equity.