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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

Well, so, so, so I'll answer your question, but I'm going to argue with you on the first one.

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

Look at Domo.

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

Domo is a competitor in our space that raised, I think, $600 million, um, went public and

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

And is trading, last I checked, less than that.

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

And they certainly went public for a net loss for their investors.

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

So you look at companies like Burst that raised a ton of money and then ultimately imploded.

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

I would argue, I think if you go up and add it, you'd find that the ones you hear about are the ones that do really well and the ones that don't are the ones you don't hear about.

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

But let me answer your second question because we could get into that topic for a long time.

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

So how do we compete with them?

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

We compete with them by being smart, knowing our use case.

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

Our use case is to focus on product managers and application teams.

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

And our focus and our win theme is around the ability to embed so deeply within their application that no one knows that it's us as part of their application.

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

We want to deliver the best engaging product experience.

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

And we're the only company of scale that focuses on that use case.

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

Most of our competitors in the space go after direct use cases, go after wide industries.

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

They go after any kind of operational type improvement use case they can.

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

We're the only ones out there that really focus in on the product managers and application teams and how do you embed it within an application.

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

And that requires a different product stack, it requires a different licensing model, it requires a different go-to-market.

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

Well, so keep in mind that is true if you had a SaaS model with reoccurring business.

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

Again, remember, until two years ago, much of our business was perpetual.