How Stack Overflow Secretly Made $65,000,000 on its SaaS Last Year

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Since StackOverflow was acquired by Prosus in June 2021 for $1.8b, most don’t realize the company does over $125m in revenues today. 65% of that revenue comes from recurring revenue SaaS products where customers pay $289,000 per year on average. Will they hit $150m in revenue before Dec 2024?

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0:40.3	Microsoft was customer number one. Over 100 million in revenue so far?
0:42.3	Yes.
0:43.3	Over 150?
0:44.3	Can't say that.
0:45.3	Over 125 can you say?
0:47.3	How many of you have used Stack Over Stack Over.
0:53.3	How many of you have used Stack Overflow?
0:56.0	All right. Awesome.
0:59.0	Of those of you who have, who even knew that they had a SaaS product?
1:02.0	One person!
1:04.0	Literally one person!
1:06.0	Good.
1:07.0	A long way to go.
1:08.0	Meanwhile, what percentage of revenue is it now?
1:10.0	It's now about 60% of our company's revenues.
1:14.2	And the SaaS product, so for those of you who didn't raise your hand, Stack Overflow
1:18.3	has a collection of sites that every developer you know goes to to figure out the problems
1:24.1	that they're wrestling with.
1:25.1	Fair?
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