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Sid Sijbrandij

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
634 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

So you're looking at the growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

Suppose I have AR and I go from one to two million, and then I go from two million to four million, and then from four to eight

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

um you you double the ar ar every year but you're gonna have like a revenue from the last year so incremental means only looking at the growth and then doubling the growth on top so it's better than doubling ar

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

Yeah, I think ARR is a vanity graph.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

If you're a subscription business, you should look at incremental ACV, and that's the number we use throughout the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

So in sales, we don't talk about deal size.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

Even if it's a multi-year deal, even if it's all cash up front, we look at that incremental ACV number for any deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

If it's just a renewal, you didn't actually gain anything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

We try to do that throughout the company and also make that the main goal to double that number every year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

No, I want to more than double that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

If we go from zero to 10 in the first year, the next year we don't want to go from 10 to 20.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

We want to

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

we want to, the first year we had 10 in incremental, the second year we want to do 20 in incremental plus the 10 we already had.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

So we end up at 30.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

We don't have a lot of growth churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

We have way more than 90% of the people staying with us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

That's on a logo basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR

Now on a net expansion basis, it's over 175%.