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Victor Levitin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
178 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

You know, we look at the cohorts of Chorn and we see that the larger the businesses are, the more stable they are.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

They get more value from the program, from the software, and they stay for longer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

So for us, the obvious solution to this is just going upmarket.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

Our CAC is about $100 per customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

Yes, that's exactly the number.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

We don't optimize for the ratio between CAC and lifetime value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

Rather, we look at the function that we look to optimize is during how many months does it take us to return the marketing spend?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

And we look to return the marketing spend within no more than five months, with this currently being three months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

Well, it's around $1,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

Okay, and walk me through kind of how you calculate that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

So we take the average customer, say $30 a month, then we take the churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

So take 30, multiply it by, say, 25, you get to 700.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

Now, our average customers actually pay us more because if you look at the whole...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

That's correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

But when you look at our RPU, we look at recent RPU.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

Recent RPU is much higher than $30 because, again, we are constantly pushing up market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

I see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

So it's kind of not accurate to take the average, the $4,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1236 He's Currently Raising $3m on $13m Pre, Will He Get The Valuation He Wants?

600 customers and divide them by the total revenue because the customers that we import today pass north of a hundred bucks.