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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 again, we're focused right now on both organic growth and looking at inorganic growth options.

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

But inorganic growth is hard to time, right?

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

So it's about getting to the right place from an organization to where we can support that inorganic growth.

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

And I firmly believe we'll get there.

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

But no, we have not done any today.

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

So if you go back to the inception of the company, we brought on about 1,900 customers, so quite a few.

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

From a revenue standpoint, we're mid-30s, just to give you some kind of idea, millions of revenue.

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 ARR?

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

Well, actually both.

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

So both revenue and ARR are going to start with a three.

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

That's exactly right.

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 where we are today.

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

And just so you understand, a lot of small companies think about growth in terms of

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

ARR growth or top line growth.

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

One of the challenges we have in the broader analytics space is you have a lot of companies that raise the VC funding, play the roulette wheel, and just spend a lot of cash to do new customer acquisition without necessarily regard to the economics or building a long-term sustainable business.

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

We're really focused on a long-term sustainable business.

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

So we think about growth as a function of growth in ARR as well as margin growth.

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

So we're profitable today.

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

We intend to continue to be profitable.

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

And so we're focused on growing our ARR