Expensify:

Founded in 2008 ... 13 years ago

A long, tenacious path to $100m ARR, and then ... Boom!!

* 60% growth in Year 13 at $140m+ ARR!!
* 119% NRR from SMBs!!
* Super Profitable (35% EBITDA!!)

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$1M in ARR per employee could be a new efficiency record at IPO for SaaS: Image
An incredible 60% of their revenue comes from employees using the free version on their own, for their own expenses, and then socializing it to their "boss".

PLG before it was hot: Image
GRR of 86% and NRR of 119% are very impressive for SMBs ... but they only counts customers with 5+ seats

Tiniest customers still have higher churn, it's a fact across all SaaS vendors Image

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More from @jasonlk

19 Oct
So GitLab just hit a $15B market cap

It's one that just ... always was growing at epic rates, from YC Demo Day to IPO

It's growing a stunning 69% a year at $250,000,000+ in ARR

5 Interesting Learnings: 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽
#1. 152% NRR from $100k+ customers.

We’re getting used to seeing these super-high NRR numbers from the top developer-focused leaders, in many cases because utility pricing often encourages it (see also Datadog, Twilio, etc). Still, these are truly top-tier numbers: Image
#2. 97% GRR (Gross Retention Rate)

It’s great and helpful to see this broken out as well to compare yourself to. GitLab’s customers … stay. Almost all of them.

97% GRR is world-class. Service Now has 99% -- but their customers sign 3 year contracts!!
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13 Oct
So Toast is now worth a stunning $27B!

And it's growing a stunning 118% at a $3B run rate

But the overall margins are low (21%), they lose money on services and hardware, and barely make money on payments

Is it SaaS?

5 Interesting Learnings: 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽
#1. With gross margins of only 21%, is Toast really a software company? Not yet. Not today.

While its software has decent margins of 66%, software is only 10% of Toast’s total GAAP revenue.
It loses money on the hardware (gross margin negative) and payments have barely a 20%+ margin and constitute the vast majority of revenue today. It would take a lot of work for Toast to hit the 60% gross margin standard to be a true software company
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29 Sep
"We're now creating more than one unicorn per day" @bdeeter
"Canva will be the fastest startup to $1B in ARR" @bdeeter @BessemerVP
"Market leaders in SaaS average about 64% market share" @TheValuesVC @BessemerVP
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27 Sep
Good Times
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25 Sep
SaaStrAnnual.com 2021
Starts MONDAY!!

(tomorrow for Day 0 AMA with ME and early registration)

6,200+ SaaS execs

100% Outdoors + Open Air
100% Vax'd + Tested
100% Fun

CEO Calendly
CEO Databricks
CEO Vimeo
CEO Box
CEO TripActions
CEO Postman
CEO Algolia
CEO Zapier
A few notes:

1/ Yes, we have enough rapid-tests for everyone on-site. But you'll save yourself 20-30 minutes of testing + waiting by bringing a test results from last 72 hours with you.

2/ Come TOMORROW Sunday for Day 0 AMA, register early, and meet some folks
3/ Dress comfy. Will be warm during the day but may be a bit chilly at night. Bring a sweatshirt but maybe short sleeves during day.

4/ Very festival style. Will be the most informal Annual in a while, being outdoors. Come to learn, but also just to have fun.
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