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

SaaStr

And more importantly, revenue and user growth that is accelerating at scale. – RevenueCat now powers 1/3d of all new mobile subscriptions world-wide – New Apps using RevenueCat doubled in last 6 months – Powering monetization for ChatGPT, Notion, VSCO, Runna, and pic.twitter.com/McFmCBZ0eE — Jason SaaStr.Ai

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Navan Files for IPO: The Opening of B2B IPO Floodgates?

SaaStr

The Navan Story: From Pandemic Pivot to IPO Ready Founded in 2015 by Israeli entrepreneurs Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig, Navan has evolved from a corporate travel booking platform into a comprehensive spend management powerhouse. When COVID-19 decimated business travel in 2020, Navan could have become another casualty.

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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tom Tunguz

They prioritize revenue growth, market share and profit maximization differently. Maximization (Revenue Growth) - maximize revenue growth in the short term. Many mid-market software companies price with the goal of revenue maximization, negotiating for the highest possible price in each sale.

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State of the Cloud 2023 with Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

SVB collapsed, market multiples are down, yet the IPO window is re-opening, and we have a platform shift to AI that’s exciting everybody. At the peak of bull market exuberance at the end of 2021, a 1% improvement in revenue growth had the same impact on valuations as a 6% improvement in free cash flow margin. Let’s find out.

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

Tom Tunguz

Today, the company is a massively successful SaaS business and another example of the flywheel business model that creates demand at the individual user and leverages that interest to sell department and company-wide contracts. TTM Revenue, $M. Revenue Growth. S&M Spend / Revenue. SmartSheet. SmartSheet.

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Generating growth: Insights from a former software company CRO | Episode 37

Payrix

No one knows this better (or more intimately) than a software company Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Adam Tesan, CRO at Worldpay for Platforms, is a seasoned executive leader with decades of experience in sales, marketing, and revenue in the software space. It was an Embedded Finance play starting with payments. [It

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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