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TAM is Great. But What Really Matters is That You Believe You Can Hit $100m ARR in 7 Years.

SaaStr

It was just a little while ago that Salesforce was doing $1 billion in ARR revenue. And true enough … freemium only ended up being 20% of our revenue, at least strictly defined. And it’s better than that, these days. Because SaaS markets are just continuing to grow. Now they’re a good chunk of the way to $10 billion.

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When did cloud computing start to become popular?

SaaStr

Around 2013 or so, the Cloud started to grow far faster than any of us had thought it would: Amazon Web Services revenue 2018 | Statista. That $200b+ of additional Cloud and SaaS spend fueled 50+ Cloud unicorns and massive growth in AWS, Azure, etc. We all knew before 2012–2013 it would be big. It’s still accelerating.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

Instead you should focus on Natural Rate of Growth (NRG) to determine the percentage of recurring organic revenue. This metric is a strong future revenue indicator. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Best For: Revenue Acceleration.

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Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription

Buffer Resources

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. percent of our total revenue and 83 percent of our fees. of our total revenue and 17 percent of our fees. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5

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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over. I think we were doing something like $3 billion of revenue a year in software sales.

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Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

To me, companies will always be trying to innovate around how do they serve their customers better and their employees better in order to build their businesses and drive more revenue. And those of us and those of you who are involved in these companies, even the successful ones look an awful lot more like this.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

million in 2013 to $115.9 This is the revenue growth for HubSpot leading up to the IPO. Double the revenue. I would love to say, “Oh, I wrote this software, and I put two servers on AWS, and put a credit card form up, and the money just kept flowing in.” HubSpot will unquestionably get to a billion in revenue.