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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

GitLab Hits $2.7b Valuation is 20x+ Revenue Multiple, 160%+ in Net Revenue Retention, 10,000 Customers

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Sid’s passionate about empowering open source, enabling great products, and evolving global processes. A self-taught Ruby developer, Sid commercialized GitLab with its creator in 2012 and graduated from Y-Combinator in 2015. Since then, GitLab has grown to 800+ remote team members across 55+ countries, and raised $188.2M in funding.

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enterprise market makes up 72% of your total ARR.

0:03.4

Are you guys in the what, 200 million, 240 million-ish run rate range today in terms of total ARR?

0:08.0

We're smaller than that.

0:09.3

Okay.

0:09.6

When do you think you break 200?

0:10.7

Can that happen this year?

0:11.4

Is it next year or a year after?

0:14.0

So certainly not this year.

0:18.6

Maybe next year.

0:21.5

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0:25.7

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0:30.1

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0:33.8

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0:39.3

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0:42.3

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0:49.3

Like Eric Wan, 18 months before he took Zoom public.

0:53.3

We got to grow faster.

0:55.0

Minimum is 100% over the past several years.

0:58.0

Or bootstrap founders like Vivek of QuestionPro.

1:01.0

When I start the company, it was not cool to raise.

1:04.0

Or Looker's CEO Frank Bean before Google acquired his company for $2.6 billion.

1:09.0

We want to see a real pervasive data culture, and then the rest flows behind that.

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