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Steli Efti

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
217 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

And it's a subscription product, so businesses pay us per month per user that is on the platform using Close.io.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

Yeah, so there's a wide range for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

But I would say that, you know, the cheapest plan that we have, we're the...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

If not the most expensive CRM in the space, we're at the premium level in our pricing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

So the cheapest plan we have is $65 per user per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

It's a lot more expensive than what our competitors do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

It can go up to, you know, it was 200, almost $200 per user per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

So we go all the, you have customers that are as small as just paying us the 65 bucks or a few hundred bucks all the way up to tens of thousands of dollars a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

The average per month is probably, you know, in the $400 or $500.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

Yeah, I know the team over there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

So, yeah, I'm not surprised that you stumbled over us working at followup.cc.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

Uh, not with a Polish team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

I know Jonathan, I know some of the, I know the guy that originally built the tool and I know that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

Um, and some other people that were involved in that company at various, various times.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

So we don't disclose these numbers, but it is a significant amount.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

So we are in the thousands.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

Yeah, well, you're smart enough, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

So if I don't publish the numbers, but I give you the unique economics, you can just do simple math and you'll know how big our business is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M

I would say between 500 and 5,000 paying businesses.