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How SaaStr Fund-Backed RevenueCat Went from a $1.5M Round at $7M Valuation in 2018 to $500M+ Today

SaaStr

When SaaStr Fund made the first investment in RevenueCat back in 2018, nobody could have predicted that this “simple API for managing in-app subscriptions” would become the infrastructure powering 33% of all mobile subscription apps and reach a $500M valuation in 2025. By the time they raised their $1.5

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The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO

SaaStr

Here’s what it really took for Attentive to go from $0 to $500M ARR in just 7 years, sending over 32B text messages and generating $20B+ in revenue for their 8,000+ customers. Because while the payment problem was solved, the marketing side of mobile commerce remained broken. Black Friday playbook) 3.

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5 Interesting Learnings From Shopify. At $3+ Billion in ARR.

SaaStr

But, there are still many interesting things we can learn from Shopify, especially since it sells to so many SMBs, has been late to go upmarket, and combines a payments/fintech element with pure SaaS. Subscriptions can fuel payments and merchant revenue. It’s now bigger than Shopify’s SaaS revenue, by far: 3.

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7 Thoughts on Building Your First Partner Program

SaaStr

Salesforce’s biggest source of new revenue isn’t CRM or even support. It’s partners and platform. It took more than a decade after Salesforce was founded: Shopify’s partner ecosystem is also huge, comprising 20% of its revenue in 2020. But it was only 8% in 2018. And it has been since 2017 or so!

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5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $4 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. NRR of 110%+ since 2018 — sort of. But likely it’s below 100% excluding payments.

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7 Predictions for SaaS in 2018

Tom Tunguz

Several landscape altering SaaS acquisitions will come to fruition because of cash availability from repatriation and because there are enough public SaaS companies at scale to add material revenue and market cap to buyers. Blockchain in the enterprise takes the reign as the buzzword for 2018. Some ideas: Google buys Salesforce.

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Asana S-1 Analysis - Comparing One Productivity Powerhouse to Another

Tom Tunguz

TTM Revenue, $M. Revenue Growth. Smartsheet went public in 2018. At the time of IPO, Asana generates more revenue, $162M in revenue to Smartsheet’s $111M. Asana is also growing faster, 86% annual revenue growth vs. SmartSheet’s 66%. S&M Spend / Revenue. R&D Spend / Revenue.