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Stephen Schneider

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
280 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

But we haven't today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

We, again, look at it as how much are we spending in sales and marketing and what kind of ACV do we get as a result of that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

And that's typically how we look at it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

Well, so we do have our targets, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

And we have our targets in terms of ACV from new, ACV from expansion, all that sort of stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

You know, again, our plans are built around this growth plus margin concept.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

Of the 40?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

I'm sorry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

I know it will be high twenties.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

This year will be high twenties.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

Next year we'll be in the thirties year before that we were in the teens and the year before that we were negative.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

So we were on this kind of path to profitability.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

Um, and so we think about how are we going to grow our bookings, but we also think about it relative to how much we want to spend to grow our bookings.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

Yeah, so we think about it as growth plus margin, and growth is percent growth of ARR on an annual basis, and margin is EBITDA as a percent of revenue, okay?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

So earnings before interest tax and depreciation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

It's a measure of profitability, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

And so you just add those two together from a nominal basis, and most studies will show that the most valuable companies have higher GPM, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

So we decided to go on this path about a year and a half ago when we had a negative GPM.