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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1625 How $31M ARR CEO Profits $500k/mo and Cracked SMB Net Retention of 110%

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Founder & CEO of Odoo.

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started off as a services company back in 2005, then pivoted in 2010 into a SaaS company,

0:05.4

now serving 11,000 customers that paid about 200, 300 bucks per month, doing 2.6 million bucks per

0:10.0

month or about 31 million bucks per year in terms of SaaS to run rate, another 9 million

0:13.3

on top of that in terms of professional services. They've done this by just raising 12 million

0:17.4

bucks in capital, cash flow positive every month, adding 500,000 bucks in free cash flow to

0:22.1

their bank account. 580 people based between Belgium, US, New York City and other remote locations,

0:26.7

20% revenue churn per year. That's gross. 30% net expansion means he's got about 110% net revenue

0:32.2

retention annually, spending $2,400 to get a new customer. So a 12 month payback period.

0:37.4

Hello, everybody. My guest today is

0:39.5

Fabian Pinkass. He is the founder and CEO of a company called Udu. Fabian. Are you ready to take us to the top?

0:45.2

Yes. All right. Open source business apps. Tell us more about what you guys are focused on at Udu.

0:50.5

So we basically do a suite of business apps from CRM, website, bidder, accounting, manufacturing, inventory.

0:57.3

Those are individual business ads, but if you install several, they fully integrate to each other's.

1:02.4

Yep.

1:02.6

We have a SaaS version as well as an on-premise version.

1:05.8

Okay.

1:06.3

And if you break down your last 12 months revenue versus SaaS versus on-prem, how much was SaaS?

1:11.9

It's more or less 50-50.

1:13.8

Oh, 50-50.

1:14.6

But I would say that even the on-premise are SaaS.

1:17.3

It's just hosted by someone else.

1:20.2

Got it.

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