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🗓️ 4 November 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Andrew Filev is the founder and CEO of Wrike, a SaaS-based work management platform that helps teams achieve operational excellence. Founded in 2006, Wrike now serves more than 15,000 customers in 130 countries, and employees 600 people across 5 offices. The company has raised north of of $26 million from Bain Capital Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, DCM Ventures and TMT.
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0:00.0 | launched back in 2006, so healthy traction over a longer period of time, 600 employees across |
0:05.6 | many different offices, currently serving about 18,000 logos doing north of 2.4 million bucks per |
0:10.9 | month, healthy growth growing more than 50%, but less than 100% year over year. |
0:15.0 | They're doing this all very efficiently, only 27 million bucks raised. |
0:18.0 | Each seat price call it 10, 30 bucks depending on the cohort net revenue |
0:21.9 | retention north of 100 percent but south of 150 percent as they work to again drive more expansion |
0:26.5 | year over year as they test new channels they're willing to spend up to two dollars to get a new |
0:30.3 | dollar of AR but over time he wants to obviously see that uh and you want to see that kind of flatline |
0:34.5 | and stabilize around a one-to-one ratio. So you said we have two hybrid models. |
0:38.4 | Start there. |
0:39.6 | So we have a hybrid model, and we have a typical lend and expand sales process. |
0:46.4 | So when we get the customer, it's usually inbound. |
0:49.6 | We have about 40,000 trials starting every month. |
0:53.4 | And trial typically, it creates a new company. |
0:55.9 | So it's not an individual trial, right? |
0:57.2 | It's an organization. |
0:58.8 | And we qualify them, and for their bigger and better ones, we provide sales assist. |
1:04.6 | So the sales rep is calling the company. |
1:06.7 | And then if the company is below 2,000 employees, it's usually very quick sales cycle. And if the company is below 2,000 employees, it's usually very quick sales cycle. |
1:11.6 | And if the company is above 2,000 employees, it's usually longer, sometimes might include proof of concept. |
1:18.6 | But in any case, when we land the deal, we don't try to delay it. |
1:23.6 | We don't try to artificially inflate it. We take the deal that there is. And then |
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