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And no, this wasn’t all because of leap year last year (that would only account for a ~3% delta at most) The Hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) also declined net new adds year over year, but not by as much. Q1 Revenue Relative to Consensus Estimates Now let’s dive in to the financial results of Q1 starting with revenue.
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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. AWS, Twilio, Heroku, etc.
Focusing on smaller developers, in some ways it’s been a bit overshadowed by AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. DigitalOcean is growing an impressive 37% at $500,000,000 in ARR, and staying very SMB with 600,000+ customers, but still driving deal sizes up a bit. They are only 15% of the customers, but 83% of the revenue.
What lessons can we learn from this huge Kiwi SMB success, for other founders? Here are a few: All the way until $600m+ ARR, the majority of Xero’s new bookings and revenue still came from Australia and New Zealand! Most of the companies in this 5 Interesting Things Series have had net negative churn from SMBs (e.g.,
The charts below show the change in quarterly revenue YoY (so Q1 ‘24 rev - Q1 ‘23 rev) going back to 2017. It’s worth pointing out that Azure is a bit above the long term trendline, while AWS is still below (but accelerating up). Beating consensus revenue estimates is the first aspect of a successful quarter.
Ok, it’s quite possible Gartner is way underestimating SMB spend here, the total spend on SaaS is likely $200B or more. In my 148 public SaaS companies (including most of the categories of this list but not AWS, Azure, GCP) the aggregate revenue is $185B. Go grab your piece. This is your time, folks. Go make it happen.
Right now, you may have 3-4-stage sales processes that work for SMB customers. Hopefully, you’ve built a partnership ecosystem for SMB customers, but it’s probably a completely different strategy for what you need to go upmarket for a couple of reasons. So, find sellers inside your sales org who can at least get you started.
Subscribe now ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) vs ERR (Experimental Runrate Revenue) ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is one of the most popular SaaS (Non-GAAP) metrics. For SaaS businesses that target smaller SMB customer segments, gross retention is typically in the mid to low 80’s with net expansion in the ~105% range.
And it’s one of the three large cloud vendors that we all know: Microsoft, AWS, and Google. AWS’s marketplace has seen 1.5 But also it’s allowed us to get much closer to our provider, I mean, we host and run 100% on AWS, but pull data from everywhere. It was pretty easy to drive that from our side.
It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. If we break this down and look at Azure and AWS independently (graphs below), you’ll see how the AWS “swings” were a lot more volatile.
This is the revenue growth for HubSpot leading up to the IPO. The other thing that dropped our odds of success was the fact that we were focused on small business, on the SMB market, and everyone we talked to, literally everyone. Do not…,” and the reason is no one hardly ever has succeeded in building a big business in SMB.
It has a portion of its revenue that’s very sensitive to the economy and a lot of startups in the customer base, good and bad, right? Then, we’ll end of the day with me and Stewart Butterfield and obviously Slack is doing well, but Slack also has a massive SMB base and its challenges. That’s how it all works.
Expansion revenue is still declining (we see this in falling net retention rates), but gross retention remains strong. Revenue multiples are a shorthand valuation framework. Multiples shown below are calculated by taking the Enterprise Value (market cap + debt - cash) / NTM revenue. New customer growth seems to be picking up.
Unlike when selling into SMB businesses that kind of can go from a demo, to a conversion, to a close in a matter of days, enterprise sales is a lot more complicated and it’s hard to navigate through. So as Lauren sort of alluded to, we started by focusing on SMB’s. It’s not going to work. Lauren A.: Lauren A.:
It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”
Many people are doing great, even private companies like Netskope, which are growing over 30% at $500M in revenue. Canva is growing at 40% and has a revenue of $2.3B. Klaviyo is growing 42% at $750M, coming up on a billion in revenue, and number one in the Shopify ecosystem. Samsara is growing 39% at $1.1B. What’s going on here?
Senior Vice President, Sales SMB. Sales Manager, SMB New Business Acquisition. Senior Vice President, Strategic Sales & Revenue. Predictable Revenue Inc. VP, SMB Essentials Sales. Amazon Web Services (AWS). Team Lead, North America – Global Marketing Solutions. Laura Mason Hoad. Faiza Hughell.
To find out which of these features are most common, OpenView surveyed over 500 SaaS companies ranging from pre-revenue to $100 million in ARR. All too often, companies omit certain acquisition costs, over-inflate recurring revenue by failing to strip out one-time revenue, and/or leave out some of the ongoing costs of serving a customer.
And G2 Gives, we partner with philanthropies, we partner with some of our customers like AWS and Google Cloud, who can then make donations for every review, to thank their customers. But what’s amazing today, the industry is almost doubled at 546 billion in total revenue. It’s most severe in the SMB world.
If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. Everyone knows Shopify for what it is today, but in the earlier days, it really was the best SaaS platform for SMB eCommerce providers. It is staggering.
And this ends up reducing revenue efficiency because your AE’s are spending more time with less qualified prospects. That way, SDRs can stop worrying about hitting vanity metrics and focus on finding the leads that will drive real revenue. A simple way to do that?
There are many vendor benefits, too — it is easier to sell and it embodies a customer success solution orientation that drives high customer lifetime value and revenue. Companies that do not need to lock customers in with minimum commitments, particularly in the SMB space, use these types of models. Less predictable revenue.
The answer likely depends on your market segmentation, as freemium may ease adoption friction for SMB/mid-market companies. Are you targeting enterprise or mid-market/SMB? The cloud-managed services attract the lower end of the market and make it possible for these businesses to address the SMB/mid-market segments.
But if you target SMBs or consumers, PLG is a fantastic way, and you have a very large user base to reach out to as well. If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. You still have a revenue goal to hit this quarter, something like that.
OnRamp is hosting a CCO Happy Hour from 5-7 ahead of the CCO Summit on Wednesday The AI Frontier Scaling Agents & Driving Innovation in SMB and Enterprise side event from 6-8pm in Mountain View with Nebius, CEO of Otter.ai, VP AI at EvenUp, CEO HeyBoss AI, and more. CFOs and VPs of Finance with tickets are invited! Will be fun!
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With a background that includes leadership roles at AWS, Microsoft, and Lenovo, Fred brings a wealth of experience in building high-performing teams and driving revenue growth. You know, we’ve got a lot of revenue leaders and founders listening to this, so many are probably familiar with Aircall. They cannot resell.
Over the years, he built and scaled a world-class sales organization, creating a team that generated hundreds of millions in revenue. Their primary responsibility is selling and generating revenue without worrying about other aspects like product meetings or board discussions. seller, head of sales, or commercial cofounder).
Aaron Ross | CEO @ Predictable Revenue. And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW. Be careful.
Look at Snowflake and GitLab and ZoomInfo, growing almost 60% at a billion in revenue. I’ll tell you, of all the founders I’m impressed with, I’m most impressed with founders that I meet and I’m like, “How you doing”, “Well, I’m at 2 million in revenue and I’m going to grow 2.5
I saw we had the opportunity to do that in London and to do something that will be new for Facebook, in the same way that AWS was a new business model and product line for Amazon and a bet that paid off very well. We are going from having an enterprise business to having a mid-market business to investing in an SMB business.
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They’ve got a new website to learn how Outreach performs the act of outreach, how the team follows up with every lead in record time after virtual events, how they turn leads into revenue. I actually was supposed to go to AWS and he called me and he said, “Hey, I’m going to go work for Paul Allen.”
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Because the temptation is always once you start having customers and revenues are growing, things like that, is just to kind of, what we call drag the spreadsheets. And then I met Brian in grad school and we both have this kind of shared passion for SMB. So it becomes revenue generating for me. It doesn't really cost that much.
As for Liat, prior to Airtable, she was the Chief Revenue Officer @ Assist. As for Liat, prior to Airtable, she was the Chief Revenue Officer at Assist. It doesn’t matter even if it’s AWS’s fault or whoever’s fault, it doesn’t matter, you’re mission critical. Loren Padelford: Yeah.
Because the temptation is always once you start having customers and revenues are growing, things like that, is just to kind of, what we call drag the spreadsheets. And then I met Brian in grad school and we both have this kind of shared passion for SMB. So it becomes revenue generating for me. It doesn't really cost that much.
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