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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1204 $30m ARR Cloud Backup Company Almost Bankrupt from Thailand Floods

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Gleb Budman is co-founder and CEO of Backblaze, which he and his team grew to $20m in revenue and profitability, while building one of the largest and most cost-efficient cloud storage systems on the planet. Previously, Gleb led two product teams from pre-funding through acquisition, and founded three companies.

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0:00.0

Invest more in those relationships that matter.

0:01.8

They're doing $30 million today growing about 50% year every year.

0:05.0

They were doing about $20 million just about 13, 14, 15 months ago.

0:08.6

But it wasn't always easy.

0:09.5

The company was launched back in 2007 with a $5 plan to help you back up everything you've

0:14.4

got in the cloud.

0:15.0

They have now $500,000 paying customers paying $5 a month.

0:18.0

There's a big flood in Taiwan in Thailand in 2012 that doubled the cost

0:22.1

of the product that they were buying from 200 bucks up to 400 bucks. So they said, you know what,

0:25.9

we can't operate on a margin anywhere anymore. We've got to raise some money. They've raised three

0:29.1

million bucks. So pretty capital efficient. Economics are healthy 10% gross logo churn annually

0:33.3

over 100% net revenue retention with their team of 70 people based mainly in San Mateo.

0:39.6

This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got

0:46.4

filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information that creates business news headlines.

1:00.0

We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to $2.7 million.

1:04.0

I had no money when I started the company.

1:06.0

It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs.

1:09.0

We're a bit strapped.

1:10.0

We have like 22,000 customers.

1:14.0

With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time,

1:18.2

major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.

1:23.2

I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

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