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Guys, Griff sold his last company to AWS and through that process that I've got a great idea, which he launched in 2020. It's called Meter and it helps companies that are generally doing more than $50 million of revenue,

more accurately capture and bill based off usage.

You've got to capture the product usage data, then bill against it, resulting in billions

of API calls per year in some cases.

Today, Meter is working with between call it 10 and 100 customers.

They have about 56 on the team with, quote, a majority being engineers and, quote,

plenty of runway as Griff and its team looks to invest in the long term.

Hey, folks, my guest today is Griff Perry.

His him and his co-founder, John Griffin, started meter after building and selling a

backend as a service company for video games to AWS.

The experience brought the challenges and opportunities of using usage-based pricing into

sharp focus, inspiring them to found meter, an intelligent metering and pricing engine

for SaaS companies.

Griff, you ready to take us to the top?

Yes, absolutely.

Where did you like me to start?

Well, it's great to have you, I will say there's a lot of people that think the future

of SaaS is actually going to be pure usage-based pricing.

We saw Chargeify try and pivot into this. It didn't really

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