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Zach Rosen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
191 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

The issue in our marketplace, as is true in many marketplaces, is it's a $200 billion a year market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

So there are seven or eight companies who are well north of 100 million run rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

So for us to achieve what we want to do, which is to build a large independent platform, we're going to have to grow pretty quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

So yes, we're going to sacrifice CAC cost and payback cost to a certain extent, certainly more than a bootstrap company would to achieve growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

Yeah, we're well within the kind of typical SaaS constraints.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

I mean, if you look at the public market numbers, they kind of set big on lines.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

I mean, you know, companies that get later stage, uh, when your companies go public or, you know, want to stay within the 25 to 45% and 30% range year over year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

Um, we're earlier stage in that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

So we're going faster.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

It's a pretty big range, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

Oh, man.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

Uh...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

Last, I'm trying to give a good recommendation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

So I reread this book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

It's my favorite business book of all time, which is a very weird book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

The Toyota Production System, which was written in 1980 by a gentleman who created, essentially is single most responsible person for the lean manufacturing system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

Yes, many.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

I'm trying to give you a useful answer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

So, yeah, I mean, uh, one, one company I admire a lot, uh, because I know that we know them pretty well.