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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

How I hit $15m ARR using 4 new growth playbooks

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Metadata CEO Gil Allouche almost killed his company in April 2020 when he only had $500k cash left in the bank and less than 2 months of runway. He used 4 growth tactics to turn things around, hitting $15m in ARR last week. Can he break $20m before Dec 2024?

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0:00.0

You are listening to conversations with Nathan Latka, where I sit down and interview the top SaaS founders, like Eric Wan from Zoom.

0:13.5

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0:29.6

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0:38.4

The bank account went down and down and down.

0:41.4

How do you compete with a giant that has like 400 million, if I'm not mistaken, in funding?

0:45.4

How do you compete with someone like that?

0:46.8

Now, how did we make it?

0:47.7

And that's the majority of this presentation.

0:53.4

From 2 million to 12 million in ARR, and what particular playbooks we use to get there.

0:58.9

Some of them are not very sexy, but they've been tried over and over and over, and are guaranteed

1:03.5

to produce pipeline.

1:04.6

So focus on that.

1:07.4

A little bit about myself.

1:08.5

I'm a software engineer, a robotic software engineer in my background. I turn into a marketer at some point, did a good job because I have a technical background.

1:14.6

And today, B2B marketing is a very technical job.

1:18.6

So I've done well as a VP of marketing, and at some point I saw the gap between what is available to a VP of marketing in terms of data and technology,

1:25.6

and what is possible in terms of data and technology for a B2B marketer,

1:29.3

and I made a choice to take the leap and start a company

1:33.3

that if you're our customer, you essentially don't have,

1:37.3

you don't have to hope for pipeline.

1:39.3

You don't have to, you know, be a rocket scientist to generate pipeline because you use experimentation and

1:46.5

data as a means to an end to guarantee that you have predictable pipeline with economies

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